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THE CATHOLIC 

SCHOOL BOOK, 

CONTAI2TINS 

EASY AND FAMILIAR LESSONS 

FOR THB 

INSTRUCTION OF YOUTH, 

OF BOTH SEXES, 
IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 

AND TH3 

PATHS OF TRUE RELIGION AND VIRTUE. 



TWELVTH MONTREAL EDITION, CORRECTED. 



PART 1. 
Tabie3 of words, of one, two, three, four, five, six and seven 
syllables ; also Easy Reading Lesson3 taken from the Holy Scrip- 
ture?, with a moral to each Lesson. 
PART II. 

Lessons on the End for which Man was created ; on what it is 
to be a Christian; on the necessity of being virtuons in tli8 time 
of Yonth : on Prayer and Instruction; on the Fear and Love of 
God ; on the Love of Parents, &c. ; on the Vices of Swearing and 
Lying, &c, &c. 

PART III. 

The Principal Festivals of the Church expounded. Necessary 
Rules for a Christian to follow. Prayers to be used on different 
occasions ; and a Summary of the Christian Doctrine. 

MONTREAL. 



PUBLISHED BY ROBERT MILLER AND FOR SALE AT 
THE BOOKSTORES. 

1864. 






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THE SECOND LONDON EDITION. 
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THE rapid sale w hick the first edition of xbis book experience d, the 
whole impression having been sold in ten months, and the high 
encomiums which have been passed upon it by the most eminent 
of the Clergy, induces the Editor to offer a second to the patron- 
age of the Catholic public, which he has enlarged, and he trusts, 
in some measure, improved. The spelling lessons will, on exam- 
ination, be found better arranged, and some hundred words have 
been added to those which are similar in sound and different in 
spelling and sense. 

In the second part two chapters are introduced, on the Devotion 
due to the Blessed Virgin, and to our Guardian-Angel and Patron 
Saint. 

Objections have been made to this work, because it does not 
contain seme grammatical exercises ; and also that the spelling 
lessons are not sufficiently prolix. To the fiist, the Editor begs 
to observe, that he never found such exercises to be of any service 
to children at the age when they use this book ; and when they 
arrive at the proper period to study grammar, it i3 better for them 
to have a separate work on the subject, many of which are to be 
had. To the second it may be observed, that most of the reading 
lessons in the first part being divided into syllables by hyphens 
they must be considered as adapted to the purpose of spelling as 
well as of reading. The Editor's chief aim, in compiling this 
work, was to implant the seeds of Virtue and true Religion in the 
minds of the rising generation, at the time of imparting to them 
knowledge of letters ; convinced, as he is, that nothing is so ne- 
cessary to insure the happiness of mankind, as to train up a child 
in the way he should go, for when he is old he will not depart 
from it. If the divine precepts of a Christian life, and the neces- 
sary means of fulfilling them, are but firmly rooted in the minds of 
youth of both sexes, they will not fail to become virtuous ornaments 
of the Catholic Church, worthy members of society here, and hap- 
py citizens of heaven hereafter. The following pages may be 
found useful in attaining these desirable blessings is the sincere 
and fervent prayer of 

W. E. ANDREWS. 
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CATHOLIC SCHOOL BOOK. 



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CONSONANTS. 



b c d fg h j k 1 m n p q r s t v w x z 

DOUBLE AND TREBLE LETTERS 

ff fi fl ffi ffl 











TABLE 


I. 










LESSON I. 






LESSON 


ii. 




ba 


ee 


di 


fo 


ku 


ab 


lb 


oc 


urn 


eb 


ka 


fe 


ci 


do 


bu 


im 


af 


ud 


ob 


ec 


fo 


de 


ko 


bi 


ca 


if 


om 


ub 


ac 


ed 


du 


ke 


be 


CO 


fi 


od 


ef 


ib 


us 


ad 


cu 


da 


bo 


fu 


ki 


uf 


am 


of 


em 


ec 




LESSON 


III. 






LESSON 


IV. 




ma 


ri 


DO 


ti 


se 


en 


at 


in 


an 


OS 


ta 


su 


re 


mu 


ni 


ax 


es 


ix 


or 


un 


ru 


mi 


to 


sa 


ne 


it 


ur 


ex 


on 


ar 


te 


si 


me 


na 


ro 


ox 


ut 


as 


er 


in 


ra 


tu 


mo 


nu 


so 


et 


is 


us 


an 


ot 




LESSON 


v. 






LESSON 


VI. 




bla 


pie 




flo 


clu 


bra 


pre 


tro 


cm 


ffl 


ble 




c)a 


plu 


tri 


bre 


era 


pru 


cle 


fla 




pli 


b!o 


ere 


tra 


pri 


bro 


pla 


fie 




bli 


do 


pra 


tre 


bri 


cro 








LESSON \ 


ru. 












fra 




fru 


fi 


'i 


frc 






fre 




phra 




pbru 


Pi 


hri 


pbro 




phre 



THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL BOOK. 







Tx\BLE IJ. 






Lesson 1 


Words 


of three 


Letters. 


A!! 


trj and 


are bed 


yet don 


for sup the 


JOU 


her not 


thy two 


off men 


l sin low tie 


pod 


fun hap 


pig dun 


nag sod 


kid red mud 


tun 


fag nip 


gun hod 


did cud 


wed sip rod 


bee 


oil tea 


dot nut 


act sea 


bun fit mad 




Lesson If, Words 


of four 


Letters. 


Cake 


hare 


mark 


make 


cart dart 


bark 


span 


fali 


dark 


wake tail 


mart 


knot 


mare 


pass 


writ clod 


wink 


lock 


shut 


fail 


such dock 


boil 


hook 


blot 


them 


sand drub 






Lesson III. 




Mope 


hail 


sake 


book 


mace pail 


look 


mock 


pace 


band 


nail hope 


Sand 


race 


that 


term 


glut knit 


name 


wise 


your 


gave 


then whom 


bare 


what 


bird 


mind 


ha?e walk 


beau 


suit 


hail 


grim 


knob smut 




L&SSON 


VI. Words of five 


Letters. 


Faith 


reign 


pease 


cause 


chief fruit 


daunt 


stood 


brawl 


pause 


couch joint 


might 


voice 


teach 


vouch 


thief moist 


knack 


eight 


bench 


small 


brass . track 


faint 


quick 


stack 


knead 


poach drawn 


saith 


craft 


frame 


pouch 


taste clock 


shaft 


check 


right 


pride 


guild crown 



THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL BOOK. 

TABLE III. 
Lesson I. Names of Birds, Beasts, fyc. 



Cat 
mare 
cock 
ant 


dog 
colt 
hen 
snipe 


cow 
bear 
hawk 
bug 


calf 
crane 
kite * 
lark 


hog 
crow 
flea 
owl 


horse 
dove 
frog 
rook 




Lesson I 


[. Terms used at 


play, fyc 


. 


Ball 

gig 
top 


bat 

leap 

trap 


skip 

jump 

taw 


cards 
throw 
whip 


dice 
kite 
lose 


chuck 

spin 

win 




L 


ESSON III. 


Apparel. 




Cap 
frock 
hoop 
shirt 


hap 
fan 
knot 
shift 


coif 
gown 
scarf 
cloth 


hood 
gloves 
stays 
stuff 


coat 
lace 
shoes 
plush 


cloak 
muff* 
clogs 
silk 




Lesson IV. 


Eatables. 




Ale 
crust 
beef 
beans 


beer 
buns 
lamb 
peas 


tea 

crumb 
pork 
milk 


wine 
cakes 
veal 
cream 


bread 
pies 
fish 
curds 


cheese 
tarts 
flesh 
whey 




Lesson V 


. Trees,) Plants* Fruits, <$»< 


•. 


Ash 

fir 

broom 

hops 

oats 

plums 


hay- 
lime 
hemp 
reeds 
rye 
pears 


beech 

oak 

flax 

rose 

wheat 

grapes 


birch 

pine 

fern 

rue 

crabs 

leaf 


box 

vine 

grass 

sage 

figs 

TOOtS 


elm 

yew 

herbs 

shrub 

nuts 

trees 



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Lesson VI. Titles and Names, 



King 


duke 


peer 


wife 


aunt 


Mark 


queen 


earl 


knight 


child 


niece 


Luke 


prince 


lord 


page 


son 


bride 


John 




Lesson VII. Number, Weights, fyc 


• 


One 


five 


nine 


inch 


drop 


drachm 


two 


six 


ten 


foot 


dram 


ounce 


three 


seven 


once 


ell 


pint 


pound 


four 


eight 


twice 


yard 


quart 


score 




Lesson VIII. Parts of th 


e Body. 




Head 


£air 


face 


eyes 


nose 


mouth 


scull 


brain 


tongue 


lips 


teeth 


chin 


arms 


hands 


cheeks 


throat 


breast 


ears 


back 


bones 


thumb 


shins 


fist 


wrist 


toes 


nails 


knees 


ribs 


legs 


feet 




Lesson IX. 


The World. 


- 


Sun 


east 


cape 


clay 


brook 


frost 


moon 


west 


rock 


dirt 


pool 


snow 


stars 


north 


land 


bank 


pond 


mist 


air 


south 


hill 


sand 


rain 


dew 


wind 


earth 


isles 


chalk 


hail 


ice 


Lesson X. 


Things belonging 


to a House. 


Cup 


door 


chest 


stool 


quilt 


thatch 


cock 


box 


chair 


coach 


slate 


mug 


bench 


brush 


plate 


bed 


tiles 


key 


pot 


stone 


broom 


spoon 


lock 


spit 


paint 


lime 


fork 


latch 


jack 


stairs 


brick 


knife 


bolt 


gate 


glass 


sheet 



THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL BOOK. 



TABLE IV. 

Easy Lessons of One Syllable, by which a child mil 
sooner know both the Sound and use of e fined. 



AI 


ale 


dot 


dote 


mod 


mode 


rud 


rude 


ar 


are 


Fam 


fame 


mol 


mole 


Sal 


sale 


at 


ate 


fan 


fane 


mop 


mope 


sam 


same 


Bab 


babe 


far 


fare 


mor 


more 


sid 


side 


bal 


bale 


fat 


fate 


Nam 


name 


sin 


sine 


ban 


bane 


iil 


file 


nap 


nape 


sit 


site 


bar 


bare 


fin 


fine 


nil 


Bile 


sol 


sole 


bas 


base 


for 


fore 


nod 


node 


sur 


sure 


bid 


bide 


Gal 


gale 


nor 


nore 


Tal 


tale 


bil 


bile 


gam 


game 


not 


note 


tarn 


tame 


bit 


bite 


g a P 


gape 


Od 


ode 


tap 


tape 


Can 


cane 


gat 


gate 


or 


ore 


tar 


tare 


cam 


came 


gor 


gore 


Pan 


paoe 


tid 


tide 


car 


care 


Hal 


hale 


pat 


pate 


til 


tile 


eap 


cape 


bat 


hate 


pin 


pine 


tim 


time 


col 


cofe 


her 


here 


pol 


pole 


tin 


tine 


cop 


cope 


bid 


hide 


por 


1 pore 


ton 


tone 


cor 


core 


hop 


hope 


P ii 


pile 


top 


tope 


Dal 


dale 


Kin 


kine 


rat 


rate 


tub 


tube 


dam 


dame 


kit 


kite 


rid 


ride 


tun 


tune 


dan 


dane 


Lad 


lade 


rip 


ripe 


,Val 


vale 


dar 


dare 


Mad 


made 


rit 


rite 


van 


vane 


dat 


date 


man 


mane 


rob 


robe 


vil 


vile 


din 


dine 


mar 


mare 


rod 


rode 


vot 


vote 


dol 


dole 


mat 


mate 


rop 


rope 


Wad wade 


dom 


dome 


mil 


mile 


rot 


rote 


win 


wine 



Do all that is just, and God will love you. Call 
on him, and He will help you. Seek the Lord, 
and you will find Him. 

I will pray to the Lord all the day long. 
a3 



1* THE 0ATHOLK5 SCHOOL B*6K« 

TABLE V. 

Lessons of One Syllable. 

Who made you and gave you life ! God, who 
made the world and all things in it. 

And was there a time when there was not a 
God ? No; there was no time when God was not. 

Who is God ? He, my child, who made the 
world ; made you, and gave you life, and your 
soul. 

He, the same who made the sun, the moon, the 
stars, the birds that fly in the air, the fish that 
swim in the sea, the beasts that walk and feed in 
the fields ; in a word, all the things which you see, 
and which give you joy. 

Did God make the world all at once ? No. 
He made it in thejspace of six days. Could he 
not have made it at once ? Yes, if such had been 
his will. 

What ought you to do at the sight and use of 
things which God hath made 1 1 ought to raise 
up my mind and heart to him, and to praise hira. 

Why do we name him by that word for name of 
God 1 What doth that name mean ? This is He, 
my child, the Great One, the Good One, and the 
Wise One, God. Of whom all things, as it were, 
cry out unto us with one voice : Know ye, Men, 
that the Lord He is God, it is he that hath made 



THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL BOOK IT 

Raise up then your mind, yoar heart, and yaut 
voice to him, and say ; O God, Thou art great, and 
good, and wise s Thou art the one God and Lord 
of all things. 

All men and all things that have been made, 
and that now are, were made by God ; but God, 
was not made. 

For there was a time when there was no man 
nor bird, nor fish ; but there was not a time when 
there was no God, or when God was not. 

He is the Lord and God of all men, and things 
that have been, and that are, and that will be. — 
All are made by him, and all live and move by 
Him. God is, and was, and will be. 

The eye of God is on all men. I will mind the 
way of the Lord, my God, that I may not sin. If 
sin be in us we are in a bad way. Let us go out 
of it, as it is not good for us to be in it. 

In God do I put my joy, and to Him will I cry 
all day. Keep me, O Lord, from such as love not 
thy law, and walk not in thy ways. I see thy 
way, God, and I }oj in it, 



12 



THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL BOOK, 



TABLE \L 



Words of Two Syllables, accented on the first, 

[The single accent (') denotes the right emphasis of the syllables 
and the double accent^") shews that the following consonant 
is to be pronounced double ; thus, ba"nish is pronounced 
bannish.J 



Ab' ba 


an vil 


bor row 


cam phire 


Ab bot 


ar bor 


boun Xy 


can eel 


ab bess 


arch er 


brack et 


can cer 


ab bey 


arc tic 


brand ish 


can did 


ab ject 


ar dent 


bra zen 


can dour 


ac cent 


art ful 


brit tie 


can vass 


a' cid 


art ist 


bro ker 


cap tive 


a ere 


as pect 


bru mal 


car bine 


ac live 


at las 


buck ler 


car C3S9 


ac tor 


au dit 


buck ram 


car go 


a" dage 


a zure 


bud get 


car nage 


ad der 


Bai liff 


bulb ous 


cart ridge 


ad verse 


ba" lance 


bul wark 


carv ing 


a gent 


baf fie 


bun gler. 


cas tie 


ail ing 


bal lot 


bur then 


can die 


am ble 


bane ful 


bur den 


ca" vern 


am bush 


bank er 


bur gess 


cause way 


am pie 


ba" nish 


bur nish 


caus tic 


an chor 


barb ed 


but ter 


ce rate 


an gel 


bar rea 


but tress 


ceil ing 


an gle 


ba sis 


Ca' ble 


chair man 


an guish 


bea con 


cal lous 


cha" lice 


an nals 


bi as 


cal low 


chal lenge 


an them 


bil low 


ca" lid 


cban eel 


Cba os 


Co gent 


cos tire 


de ist 


cha" pel 


coin age 


co" Tert 


de" luge 



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chap let 


com pact 


cur rent 


drea ry 


char ter 


com pass 


cus torn 


driz zle 


chat tels 


com plex 


cut ler 


drop sy 


cheer ful 


com rade 


cy" nic 


dro ver 


cheer less 


con cave 


cy press 


drow sey 


che" rish 


con cord 


Dab ble 


drug gist 


chief tain 


con course 


dain ty 


due tile 


chi" sel 


con flict 


da" mage 


du el 


cho rus 


con flux 


da" mask 


duke dom 


chris ten 


con gress 


dan ger 


Ea ger 


chur lish 


con quest 


dar nel 


eagle 


cby"mist 


con serve 


das tard 


ear less 


ci pher 


con sort 


dea con 


ear nest 


cir cle 


con strue 


debt or 


earth en 


cir cuit 


con tact 


de cent 


east ward 


cis tern 


con trive 


des pot 


e" cho 


ci" tron 


con vent 


de" sert 


e diet 


ci" Til 


con vex 


die tate 


ef fort 


claim ant 


cor net 


di et 


e gress 


cla" mour 


cor nice 


di' git 


em b!em 


clas sic 


cor sair 


dis cord 


em pire 


clea ver 


co" vet 


dis mal 


en dive 


cle 1 ' mant 


cou" rage 


dis tick 


en gine 


cli mate 


count ess 


district 


en trails 


cli ent 


coun try 


dole ful 


en vy 


clus ter 


coun ty 


do" lour . 


e pic 


coffer 


ere" dit 


dol phin 


e qual 


col league 


crim son 


do nor 


e ra 


col lege 


cri sis 


dor mant 


es sence 


co" luran 


cri" tic 


do tage 


e" tic 


com bat 


crys tal 


do" zen 


eu rope 


co" met 


cul ture 


dra ma 


ex ile 


com ment 


cu rate 


dra per 


ex it 



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THE OATHjQLlG SCHOOL BOOK. 



ex taat 
Fa" brie 
fable 
fee tor 
faith fill 
fa" misfe 
fa mous 
fan cy 
fa" thorn 
fa vour 
flo"rid 
fee ble 
fe" Ion 
fer tile 
fer vour 
fi bre 
fie kle 
fi" gure 
final 
fi nis 
fi nite 
fla grant 
flat ter 
fla vour 
fledg ed 
fleet nes^ 
flex ure 
flo" rist 
fluid 
flu ent 
flut ter 
fod der 
foi ble 



fo" rage 
fo" reign 
for feit 
for g er 
for mal 
for tress 
f<?s ter 
bun der 
frac ture 
fra grant 
frag ment 
frail ty 
fran tic 
fren zy 
fri"gid 
fro" lie 
fron tier 
fru gal 
fruit less 
frus trate 
fur nish 
for nace 
fur row 
fu tile 
fu ture 
Ga'' mut 
gab ble 
gar gle 
gar ment 
gar nuh 
gau dy 
gan grene 
guag ing 



gen tie 
ges ture 
ghast ly 
gher kin 

gUt ter 
glut ton 
gos pel 
go" thic 
go" vern 
gram mar 
gran deur 
grap pie 
grate ful 
gra tis 
gra ver 
gross ness 
gro" vel 
guid ance 
guil ty 
Ha" bit 
hack ney 
ham per 
hand cuff 
hand some 
bar row 
bar vest 
hat chet 
ha ven 
haugh ty 
ha" voc 
hawk er 
ha" zard 



hea ?y 

heart feit 
hea theft 
hee tor 
head less 
hei nous 
hei fer 
hel met 
hem lock 
her bal 
her rait 
he ro 
bigg ler 
hire ling 
hi" ther 
hoa ry 
ho" mage 
ho" nest 
ho" nour 
hor ror 
hos tage 
hos tile 
ho" ver 
hum ble 
hu mid 
hu mour 
hys sop 
Idle 
ill ness 
i" mage 
im port 
im pulse 
in come 



TfiTB CATHOLIC SCHOOL BOOK 



15 



la dex 
ia gress 
m let 
id jure 
ia mate 
ia quest 
hi road 
m sect 
ia sight 
in stance 
in stinct 
irk some 
i&l and 
isth mus 
is sue 
i tern 
Ja lap 
joint tore 
junc tore 
jua to 
Ken ne! 
ker sey 
kid der 
king dom 
kna vish 
kit cbea 
kirne kle 
La' be! 
Ja bent 
la boor 
Ian cet 
laa guid 
tan guish 



la tent 
lat tice 
la" vish 
law yer 
iega; 
Ie" gate 
Ie gend 
lei sure 
Ie" vel 
libel 
H cense 
lim ner 
lim pid 
lin guist 
IV quor 
!i" vid 
lo eal 
!o" gic 
loy al 
lu cid 
lucre 
lug gage 
his ter 
ly ric 
Mag net 
maim ed 
ma" lice 
mam mon 
ma 1 ' nage 
man date 
man gle 
ma" nor 
man tie 



marble 
mar gin 
mar shal 
mar tyr 
mar vel 
mas sy 
match less 
mat tress 
man gre 
max im 
may or 
mea" dow 
mea gre 
me ,l .dal 
me" nace 
men tal 
mer cer 
me" rit 
mes sage 
me ter 
mid night 
migh ty 
mia gle 
mi nor 
mir ror 
mis chief 
mi tre 
mo" del 
mo" dern 
mod est 
mo dish 
mo ment 
mo" narch 



mo" ral 
mor tar 
mort gage 
mo tiye 
mot ley 
mot to 
mourn fid 
mun dane 
mar mur 
mus cle 
myr tie 
muz z!e 
Na tive 
na ture 
na vy 
nee dy 
ner vous 
ne" tber 
neu* ter 
nig gard 
ni tre 
no ble 
noi some 
no* *ge 
non plas 
nos trum 
eo" ve 
no vice 
nou" rish 
Bui sauce 
nur ture 
Oat meal 
ob long 



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o cean 
o dour 
offal 
off spring 
o men 
op tic 
o ral 

ord nance 
or dare 
or phan 
09 trich 
o ?al 
o yert 
out rage 
oys ter 
Pack et 
pad die 
pa gan 
pa" lace 
pal try 
para per 
pam phlet 
pa" nic 
pan cake 
pan nel 
par boil 
par ley 
par lour 
pas sive 
pas tor 
pas ture 
pa" tent 
pa tbos 



pa" tron 
pau per 
pea sant 
pe dant 
ped lar 
pee vish 
pe nal 
pe 5 ' nance 
pen si?e 
pe" rii 
pe'- rish 
pes ter 
pes tie 
phan torn 
phoe nix 
phi al 
phy sic 
pil fer 
pil grim 
pin nace 
pi ous 
pla" card 
plain tiff 
plat form 
plu mage 
plun der 
plu ral 
poig nant 
po" lish 
pom mel 
pom pous 
pon der 
pon tiff 



port ly 
por trait 
post age 
pos ture 
po tent 
prac tice 
prat tie 
pre cept 
pre cinct 
pre'' late 
pre" lude 
pres sure 
pri mate 
pri or 
pris tine 
pri" vy 
pro" blem 
pro" cess 
proc tor 
pro" duct 
pro" fit 
pro fer 
pro" gress 
pro" ject 
pro" logue 
pro noun 
pro" phet 
pros pect 
pros trate 
pro" verb 
pro" yince 
prow ess 
pru dent 



pru dence 
psal mist 
psal ter 
pur blind 
pur port 
pus tule 
pu trid 
Bab ble 
rab bit 
rai ment 
ral ly 
ram part 
ran cour 
ran dom 
ran sack 
ran ter 
ra" pid 
ra" pine 
rap ture 
rash ness 
ra" vage 
rea son 
re cent 
rec tor 
re flux 
re" fuge 
re gal 
re gent 
re" lict 
re lish 
rem nant 
ren der 
rep tile 



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re" spite 


scho" lar 


sig net 


spot less 


re" vel 


sci ence 


sil van 


spright ly 


rbu barb 


sci on 


si" new 


spr in kle 


ri"gid 


scrib ble 


six ty 


sqa" lid 


riot 


scrip ture 


skil ful 


squal ly 


rival 


scru pie 


skil led 


squan der 


ro guish 


sculp tor 


skir mish 


sta ble 


ro" sin 


sculp ture 


slaugh ter 


stag nant 


ros trum 


se cret 


slen der 


stam mer 


roy al 


sei zure 


sloth ful 


stand ard 


ru brie 


self isb 


slo" ven 


stand ish 


rug ged 


se'' nate 


slum ber 


state ly 


rum ble 


sen tence 


smo" ther 


sta" tue 


rum mage 


se quel 


smug gler 


sta" ture 


ru mour 


ser mon 


so journ 


sta" tute 


rup ture 


ser Tile 


so" lace 


stea dy 


rural 


se" ver 


so lar 


steer age 


rus tic 


sew er 


so lemn 


ste" ril 


Sable 


sex ton 


so" lid 


ster ling 


sabre 


sha! low 


sol vent 


stem ly 


sa cred 


sham bles 


son net 


stew art 


sad die 


shame ful 


so" phist 


stick ler 


sal rage 


shame less 


sor did 


stig ma 


sam pie 


shar per 


sor rel 


sti pend 


san guine 


shat ter 


sor row 


sto" mach 


sap pbire 


shet ter 


spar kle 


sto ry 


sar casm 


she" riff 


spat ter 


stow age 


saun ter 


shrewd ly 


spee dy 


strag gle 


scab bard 


shri" vel 


spin die 


stran gle 


scan dal 


thud der 


spi ral 


strip ling 


seep tic 


scuf fle 


spite fu! 


strug gle 


seep tre 


sic kle 


splen did 


stub born 


sche"dule 


sig nal 


sport ing 


stu dent 



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stab ble 


Taber 


tit tie 


tu mour 


stum ble 


tab by 


to ken 


tu mult 


stu-pid 


ta" lent 


ton nage 


tur bid 


stu por 


ta" Ion 


to" pic 


tur gid 


stur dy 


tam per 


tor ment 


tur ret 


sub tile 


tap ster 


tor pid 


twin kle 


sub tie 


tar get 


tor rent 


twit ter 


sub urb 


tar nish 


tor rid 


ty rant 


sue cour 


tart ness 


tor toise 


tym bal 


sad den 


taw dry 


tor ture 


Va cant 


suf frage 


tern per 


to ward 


vag rant 


suit or 


tern pest 


tow er 


va" lid 


sul len 


tem pie 


traffic 


val ley 


sul ly 


te" nant 


tra v gic 


va" lour 


sul tan 


ten der 


trai tor 


va" lue 


sul try 


ten don 


tram pie 


va" nish 


sum mit 


te" net 


tran quil 


va" pid 


sum mer 


ten ter 


tran sit 


va pour 


sua dry 


te" nure 


tra vel 


var nish 


sup p'e 


ter race 


tra" verse 


vas sal 


sur face 


ter ror 


trea cle 


vel lum 


sur feit 


tes ter 


trea son 


ve" nom 


sure ty 


tex ture 


trea tise 


ver bal 


stir name 


thick et 


tre mor 


ver diet 


sur plus 


thirs ty 


tre" pid 


vex dure 


swad die 


this tie 


tres pass 


ver nal 


swar thy 


thi" ther 


tri bute 


vers ed 


sm' 1 vel 


tick et 


tri fle 


ver text 


sym bol 


til lage 


tri" pie 


ves pers 


sy" nod 


lira brel 


troo per 


ves sel 


syn tax 


ti" mid 


tro phy 


ves try 


sy" ringe 


tin kle 


trow el 


vesture 


$ys Uia 


tip p!e 


hu ant 


vi brate 



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19 



Tice roy 
Tic tim 
Tic tor 
Ti" gil 
Ti" gour 
Til lage 
Tir tue 
ti" sage 
ris count 
tis ecus 
Ti" sit 
Ti sor 
ti" Tid 
to land 

Words 
A base 
a bat 
a bide 
a bound 
ab solve 
ab sorb 
ab stain 
ab struce 
ab surd 
ac cede 
ae cess 
ac cord 
ac crue 
ac case 
ae quit 
ac diet 



tcI ley 
to" lume 
Tor tex 
Touch er 
Toy age 
tuI gar 
Urn brage 
urn pire 
up right 
up roar 
up shot 
ur gent 
Wa ger 
wad die 



wain scot 
wal let 
war b!e 
war den 
war fare 
war rant 

war ren 
weal thy 
wea" ther 

weigh ty 
wel fare 
wher ry 
wick et 
wi" dow 



TABLE VII. 
of Two Syllables, accented 



ad dress 
ad duce 
ad journ 
ad judge 
a dopt 
a dorn 
ab Tert 
af firm 
af fix 
al lege 
al Iude 
al lure 
an nex 
an noy 
an nul 
ap pal 



ap pease 
ap plause 

ap point 

ap proach 
ap prise 
ap prove 

ar raign 

ar range 

ar rest 

as cribe 

as sail 

as pire 

8 s sault 

as sent 

as sert 



wcr ry 
wran gle 
wrap per 
wres tie 
wrin k!e 
Yawn ing 
yes ter 
yeo men 
youth ftti 
Ze" bra 
zea lot 
zea lous 
ze nith 
zlg zag 

on the last 
as sign 
as size 
as suage 
as sume 
at tire 
at tract 
a Tail 
a Tenge 
a Tert 
a Terse 
a Toid 
aug meat 
Be guile 
be moan 
be nigH 
be queath 



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be reave 


com prise 


con tempt 


de fense 


be witch 


com pure 


con tend 


de fend 


bom bard 


con ceal 


con tent 


de fer 


bom bast 


con cede 


eon trire 


de fine 


bri gade 


con ceit 


con trol 


de form 


bu reau 


con ceive 


con vene 


de fraud 


Ca det 


con cise 


con verge 


de fray 


ca joie 


con elude 


con vey 


de fy 


ca lash 


con cur 


con yoke 


de grade 


cal cine 


con dense 


cor rect 


de gree 


can nal 


con dole 


cor rode 


de ject 


can noe 


con duce 


cor rupt 


de lay 


ca price 


con fer 


cor tes 


de light 


ca reen 


con fess 


De bar 


de lude 


ca reer 


con fide 


de base 


de mand 


ca ress 


con firm 


de bate 


de mean 


ca rouse 


con form 


de cant 


de mise 


car tel 


con front 


de cay 


de mur 


cas cade 


con fuse 


de cease 


de note 


ca shier 


con fute 


de ceit 


de part 


cha grin 


con geal 


de cide 


de pend 


chas tise 


con join 


de claim 


de pict 


co heir 


con nect 


de dliue 


de plore 


com bine 


con nive 


de coy 


de plume 


com mand 


con sign 


de cry 


de pose 


com mit 


con sist 


de cree 


de prave 


com pare 


con sol 


de duce 


de press 


com pel 


con spire 


de duet 


de prive 


cam pile 


con strain 


de face 


de pute 


com plete 


con suit 


de fame 


de ride 


com ply 


con sume 


de fault 


de rive 


com port 


con tain 


de fait 


de scribe 


com pose 


con temn 


de feet 


de scend 



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21 



dis guise 
dis JQDCt 
dis may 
dis own 
dis patch 
dis pel 
dis pense 
dis play 
dis pute 
dis pose 
dis robe 
dis sect 
dis sect 
dis solve 
dis tend 
dis tinct 
dis til 
dis tort 
dis use 
di vert 
di vest 
di vine 
di vorce 
dra goon 
E clat 
e clipse 
ef face 
effect 
efflux 
eject 
e lapse 
e leet 
elope 



e lude 
em blam 
em bark 
em broil 
e merge 
e mit 
en act 
en cbant 
en close 
en croach 
en dear 
en dorse 
en dow 
en dure 
en force 
en gage 
en gross 
en nance 
en large 
en rage 
en rich 
en rol 
en sure 
en tail 
en tice 
en tire 
en treat 
e quip 
e rase 
e rect 
ea cape 
e vade 
e vent 



e ?mce 
ex act 
ex alt 
ex eel 
ex cess 
ex cite 
ex elude 
ex empt 
ex ert 
ex hale 
ex haust 
ex hort 
ex ist 
ex pand 
ex panse 
ex pel 
ex pend 
ex pense 
ex pert 
ex pire 
ex plain 
ex plode 
ex ploit 
ex plore 
ex port 
ex teed 
ex teat 
ex tinct 
ex to! 
ex tort 
ex treme 
ex trude 
ex ult 



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ex ude 
Fa tigue 
fi nance 
fo merit 
for bear 
for go 
for lorn 
for swear 
fulfil 
Ga zette 
gen teel 
gre nade 
Har poon 
hu mane 
huz za 
II lude 
m bibe 
m brue 
in merse 
mmure 
m pair 
m part 
m peach 
m pede 
m pel 
m pend 
m plant 
m plore 
m ply 
m pose 
m press 
m priat 
m pure 



im pute 
in case 
in cense 
ia cite 
ia elude 
in cur 
in dent 
in diet 
in ert 
in feet 
in fer 
in fest 
in firm 
in form 
ia fuse 
in spect 
in spire 
in still 
in tense 
in tent 
inter 
in trude 
in veigh 
in vert 
in vest 

in volve 
in ure 
Japan 
je June 
jo cose 

Main tain 
mal treat 



ma nure 
ma rine 
ma ture 
mar qae 
mis deed 
mis trust 
mo lest 
mo rose* 
my self 
bey 
ob scene 
ob scure 
ob struct 
ob trude 
ob tuse 
oc cult 
oc cur 
op pose 
op press 
or dam 
out do 
Pa rade 
pa role 
par take 
per form 
per mit 
per plex 
per sist 
per spire 
per tain 
per vade 
per verse 
per \ert 



pe ruse 
po lite 
por tend 
por tent 
post pone 
pre cede 
pre cinct 
pre cise 
pre elude 
pre diet 
pre fer 
pre mise 
pre sage 
pre scribe 
pre side 
pre sume 
pre tence 
pre tend 
pre text 
pre vail 
pre vent 
pro cure 
pro fane 
pro file 
pro fess 
pro found 
pro lix 
pro long 
pro mote 
pro pose 
pro rogue 
pro tect 
pro test 



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23 



re fute 


re piete 


re venge 


re gain 


re pose 


re vere 


re gard 


re press 


re verse 


re gret 


re prieve 


re vert 


re hearse 


re proach 


re view- 


re ject 


re prove 


re vile 


re lapse 


re pulse 


re vise 


re late 


re pute 


re vive 


re lax 


re quest 


re voke 


re lease 


re quite 


re volt 


re lent 


re sent 


re volve 


re lief 


re serve 


ro oust 


re mark 


re side 


ro mance 


re mind 


re sign 


ro tund 


re mit 


re sist 


Sa line 


re morse 


re sort 


sa lute 


re mote 


re sound 


sa voy 


re new 


re source 


scru toire 


re cite 


re spect 


se cede 


re cluse 


re spire 


se elude 


re flux 


re strain 


se crete 


re cur 


re suit 


se cure 


re fit' 


re sume 


se date 


re gale 


re tail 


se duce 


re miss 


re train 


se lect 


re nown 


re tard 


se rene 


re pair 


re tire 


se vere 


re past 


re tort 


se tee 


re peal 


re tract 


shal loon 


re peat' 


re treat 


sha green 


re pel \ 


re trench 


so ho 


recent 


re triere 


sin cere 


re pine 


re veal 


spi net 



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sub due 


sup press 


trans form 


un nerve 


sub joia 


su preme 


trans fuse 


un kind 


sub lime 


sur charge 


trans gress 


un knit 


sub mil 


sur mise 


trans late 


un known 


sub orn 


sur mount 


trans mit 


un lace 


sub scribe 


sur pass 


trans mute 


un lade 


sub side 


sur round 


trans pierce 


un laid 


sub sist 


sur vey 


trans pire 


un latch 


sub vert 


sur vive 


trans plant 


ua learn 


sue ceed 


sus pect 


trans port 


un less 


sue cess 


sus pend 


trans pose 


un like 


sue cinct 


sus pense 


trans verse 


un link 


suf fice 


sus pire 


tre pan 


un load 


sug gest 


sub merge 


trus tee 


un lock 


su perb 


Tra duce 


Ver bose 


un loose 


su pine 


Iran sact 


vouch safe 


un make 


sup plant ' 


tran scend 


CJn couth 


un mask 


sup ply 


tran scribe 


un fold 


un made 


sup port 


trans fer 


u nite 


un moor 


sup pose 


trans fix 








TABLE VIII. 





Easy Lessons of Two and Three Syllables. 
Lesson I. 

Hear now, my child, what great works God did when 
He made the world, Though he could have made the 
world all at once, if such had been His will, yet He did 
not make it all at once. He made all things and man in 
the space of six days. Thus He showed that He made it 
not by force, but by His own free will and choice. 

On the first day God made the Heaven and the earth, 
or that which was to be the world. The earth had not 
then the form it now hath. There was not the sun, nor 
the moon, nor the stars. It was a mass or heap, with no 
form or shape. And it was void, for there were no beasts 
nor trees, nor birds, nor any thing in it. 

Nor was there any thing out of which God made 
th* world. He is of such might, He is so great and 



THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL BOOK. 25 

wise, that He did not need any help. There was no light ; 
it was quite dark. God then said, Be light made, and 
light ivas made. 

Not, my child, that God spoke such words as we may 
speak them, for God is not as we are. He hath not a 
bo-dy as we have, so as He can be seen by us. No man 
hath seen God at any time, nor can see him. He is a 
pure spi-rit, the same as your own soul a spi-rit which 
cannot be seen with mor-tal eyes. 

Yet God knows and sees all things, and can dio all things. 
And He doth what|He pleas-es by His will : His will was 
and is as his word : hence, as soon as he would hare a thing 
be made or done, so soon was it made or done 

Thus it was His will there should be light, and there was 
light ; and a like of all o-ther tbiDgs that were made. And 
God saw the light that it was good, and He call-ed the light 
Day, and the dark-ness Night. 

Now then, my child, and at all times when you look at, or 
think od, the works of God, raise up your mind and heart to 
that great and good God : pray to him and say : O God ! 
Thou art great and good and wise in all Thy works. Bless 
the Lord, all the works of the Lord. Thou art my God, 
by thee I have been made, and by Thee I now live. 

I pray Thee, O God, dart forth a ray of the light of Thy 
grace on my mind and heart, that I may know Thee : then 
will I a-dore Thee, I will praise Thee, I will love Thee, 
and I will serre Thee by day and by night. 

Lesson II. 

Gcd makes the World and Man. 

On the se-cond day, God made that part of the Hea-ven 
which we call the Sky and the Air. On the third day, He 
set-tied the wa-ter in one place, aod it was call-ed the Sea, 
and the dry land He call-ed the Earth, then He made the 
Herbs 7 Trees, and Plants, of all sorts, spring out of the 
earth.- 

On the fourth day, God said, Be there lights to sh'ne and 
to give light by day and by night. And God made 



26 THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL BOOK. 

two great lights : the Sun, to rule or give light by day, 
and the Moon and Stars, to rule or give light by night. 

On the fifth day God made the Fish-es of the sea, and 
the Birds of the air. On the sixth day, He brought forth 
from the earth the Beasts, all that creep on the earth in its 
kind. 

When God had made all these things, He then made 
Man, and He gave him rule over the Fish-es of the 
sea, the Fowls of the air, the Beasts and over the whole 
earth. 

Though Man was the last of the works which God 
made, jet he is the first in rank, and the most perfect of 
all the things in this world. Now, God form-ed the bo-dy 
of Man out of the slime of the earth ) then He breath-ed 
in-to it the breath of life. 

By this breath of life is meant not only that by which 
Man breathes, and lives and moves, as the beasts and birds 
do, but hj it also is meant that which beasts have not, that 
is, a spirit, the Soul. 

This is quite distinct from the body, and by this 
Man knows God, who made him : he can think on 
Him and love Him ; he can also think on, judge, and 
talk of things 5 and by it he hath a will to do, or not 
to do, this or that thing, as he may choose or like 
best. 

God did not take nor form this part of Man, or his 
soul, from the earth, as He did the bo-dy, but it came from 
God bim-self, and God him-self in-fused it in-to him. It 
is in this that Man is the most per-fect of all the works of 
God, be-cause by that Man is like to God. 

Thus God made Man like to him self, that Man might 
m this life know him (his God and his Lord, his be-gin-niog 
and end,) and love Him, and serve Him ; and by so do-ing 
see Him, and live with Him, and en-joy Him after this life, 
in Hea-ven. 

MORAL. 

Thus you see, my child, God h&th made us much 
a-bove the beasts. He hath taught us more than the 

Beasts of the earth, and made us wis-er than the Birds of 



THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL BOOK. 27 

the sir. Now, my child, He vsh6 bath been the cause of 
these and such great things for the me cf Man, must have 

great love for him, 

Hence we can-not too much love him for all the love He 
shews us. Use then the things of \he World as the kind 
gifts of the good God. When you use them, or they give 
you joy, raise up your mind and heart to praise and thank 
Him. 

Say, at least in your mind, and with your heart, How 
great art thou, O God ! How wise, and how good in all Thy 
works. Bless the Lord, all the works of the Lord ; Sun, 
Moon, and Stars, Beasts of the fi^d, Birds of the any 
Fish-es of the sea, bless the Lord; ye soes of men bless 
the Lord ; and thou, my soul , for whom the Lord hath done 
such great things, bless the Lord. 

Lesson III. 

God makes Eve. Tlte sin of A-dam and Eve. 

Genesis ii. 3. 

God gave tlie first man whom he made, the name of 
A-dam, for that he had been made of the slime of the 
earth, God pla-ced him in the Garden of Pa-ra-dise, to work 
and to keep it. God then brought to A-dam the beasts of 
the earth, and the fowls of the air, or caus-ed them to come 
to him, that he might see them ; and by what name he call- 
ed them, the same is the name of each of them. 

God cast A-dam iuto a deep sleep, and whilst he was 
a-sleep, God took a rib from his side, and he made it into 
a wo-man. He then brought her to Adam, and when 
A-dam saw her, he said : This is now bone of my bone, and 
flesh of my flesh, she shall be called Wo. man, for that she 
is taken out of Man. And she was al-so call-ed Eve, that 
is; the mother of all men and wo-men that were thence to 
be born and to live. 

There was in the midst of the gar-den, a tree. God 
bade A-dam and Eve not to eat, nor to touch the fruit of 
it. He told them that if they did they should die. But 
Eve be-ing tempted by the Devil, in the form of a ser-pent, 
took of the fruit, and did eat ; she then gave ii to A-dara, 
and he ate of it. As soon as they had eat-en it, God call ed 
to A-dam, and said, Where art thou? 

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28 THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL BOOK. 

But when A-dam heard the voice of God, he feared and 
hid himself, and so did bis wife, from the face of the Lord 
God. And they hid them-selves, al-so through shame 
be-cause they were na-ked. And God said to A-dam, who 
hath told thee that thou wast na-ked, but that thou didst 
eat of the tree of which I bade thee not to eat ? 

Than God said to him, For that thou hast heard the voice 
of thy wife, and didst eat of the fruit of the tree, cur-sed is 
the earth in thy work ; with much toil shalt thou eat 
there-of all the days of thy life, till thou re-turn to the 
earth out of which I took thee ; for dust thou art, and un~to 
dust thou shalt re-turn. 

A-dam and Eve, by thus not o-bey-ing God, sinned, and 
by their sin they lost the grace and fav-or of God. God 
then drove them out of the gar-den of Pa-ra-dise, in which 
he had pla-ced them ; and he doom-ed them to die. 

We are all born in-to this life with the guilt of their 
sin 5 that is cali-ed o-ri-gi nal sin, because as we de-scend 
and de-rive our life from them, so we al-so de-rive the guilt 
of their sin. We feel the sad effects of their sin, by the 
strong bent we find in us to sin, or to do wrong ; and in 
the heat and cold, hun-ger and thirst, pains and toil we 
suffer, and in death, through which we must all pass to 
the next life. 

MORAL. 

Oh ! sad the fall of our first par-ents by sin ! Thence 
learn, my child, how sad a thing it will be to you not to 
o-bey God, though in things that may seem light 5 take 
care that you do not sin by your own free will and choice, 
and dread the least sin. Flee those who would tempt of 
lead you to do evil. 

Lesson IV. 

Cain, Abel, Seth. The World drown-ed. Noe, 

Gen. iv. 7. 

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and A be]. Cain till-ed the earth, Abel took care of sheep 
in the fields. A-bel was good, and from his heart he served 
God : he of-fer-ed the best he had of his flock to God, and 
God was well pleased with him. Cain was bad, and he did 
not offer the best of what he had to God, and God was not 
pleas-ed with him. 

Cain ha-ted A-bel be-cause God look-ed down kind.Iy on 
him, and on what he of-fer-ed. One day when they both 
were in the fields, Cain rose up against Abel, and through 
en-vy kill-ed him. They who were born of Cain were bad 
like him-self. 

Af-ter the death of A-bel, A-dam and Eve had a third 
son; his name was Seth. He was good; like A-bel he 
knew, lov-ed and serv-ed God. His race, or they who were 
born of him, were al-so at first good ; but after a while 
they mixed with such as were bad of the race of Cain, 
and then they were bad like unto them. 

Thence in a short time almost the whole race of men 
and wo-men were bad. God was angry at them, and he 
meant to put an end to them, yet there was one good man 
whose name was No-e. God was well pleas-ed with him. 

God then made it known to No e, that he would drown 
the whole earth, and all that was on it, but that he would 
save him and his wife and chil-dren, with a few of each kind 
of beasts and birds, in an ark which God bade him build. 
The ark was a kind of a trunk or ship made of wood. It 
was daub-ed in*side and outside with pitch. 

When the time was come that God would drown the 
earth, he made No-e go into the ark, and with him his 
wife, their three sons, and their wives ; and two or three of 
each sort of beasts and birds ; as soon as they were in the 
ark, the door of it was shut. 

It then rain-ed for for-ty days and for-ty nights, and all 
men, and wo-men, and chil-dren, and beasts and birds were 
drown-ed, ex-cept Xo-e, and those with him in the ark. 
On-ly these eight per-sons of all man kind were sav-ed. 
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MORAL. 

By this you may judge, my child, how much God must! 
hate sia, and them that com-mit it; at the same time how[ 
much be loves and how great care He takes of them that! 
are good. Be then, my child good ; love, fear, and serve I 
God, and God will love and bless you, and take care that nol 
harm come to you, while they that are bad feel the weight 
of his wrath. 

Keep yonr-selves far off from bad boys and girls, and join 
such as are good : for with the good you will be good, but 
with the bad you will be bad, as it was with those of the race 
of good Seth ; they were at first good as he was good ; but 
as soon as they mixed with them that were bad, they were 
bad like un-to them. 

Lesson Y. 

Noe goes out of the ark. His three sons. 

While No-e, and his wife, their three sons and their wives, 
were in the ark, the waters rose so high that all the hills 
were cov-er-ed, and all flesh died that mov ed on the earth, 
both of fowl and of beasts ; and of that which creeped upon 
the ground. And when they had been ia the ark for the 
space of a year, the wa-ters be-gan to de-crease, till the 
earth was dry, 

Then God spake to No-e, and said, Go forth out of the 
ark, thou and thy wife and thy chiUdren. And Noe went 
forth out of the ark, and all that were with him. God bless- 
ed No-e and his sons, and pro-mis-ed that he would no more 
drown the earth ; and he set the rain-bow as a sign there-of. 

He gave in-to their hands, that is, he set them over all the 
beasts of the earth, and the fowls of the air, and all the 
ihh-es of the sea ; and He said, They shall be meat for you ; 
e-ven as the green herbs have I giv-en you all things ; and 
while the earth re-raains, seed-time and harvest, and cold 
and beat, and sum-mer and winter, and day and night shall 
not cease. 

The three sons of No-e were Seth, Cham, and Ja-phet 
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their fa-ther ; Gcd there-fore bless-ed theaf; Cham was 
bad, and a bad deed drew up-on him-self the curse pro-phe- 
si-ed of God. 

After the flood, when the land was dry, No-e tiil-ed it 
and planted the vice tree. Of the fruit of that tree he 
made wine. When he had drunk of ir, for he then did not 
know the strength of it, he fell a- sleep. Whilst he was 
a-sleep, he lay ex-pos-ed in a man-ner un tit to be seen. 

When Cham saw his fa-ther na-ked, he looked on him 
and made a jest of him. He then told his bro-thers what 
he had seen. They blam-ed hi in for thi3 deed, and dis re- 
spect to their fa-ther. They then took a cloak, and, with 
their fa-ces turn-ed from their fa-ther, they cast it cs him, 
and co-ver-ed him. 

When No-e a-woke from sleep, and kne^ what had 
pass-ed, he blam-ed and chided Cham, and laid a curse on 
Cha-na-an, the son of Cham. But he bless-ed Seth and 
Ja-pheth. 

MORAL. 

Learn here a-gain, my child, how sad a thing it is to sia 
and of-fend God. Dread the curse of God. Love and 
revere them of whom, n^xt to God, you hold your life, and 
all that you have. 

Do not, like many chil-dren, rail at them, nor make a 
jest of them in their old age. The curse of God falls on 
such children far their bad deeds. But he will bless those 
that love, obey, and re-spect their pa-rents 

Lesson VI. 
The vain Scheme cf the Chil-dren of No-e. Gen. xi. 

No-e liv-ed af-ter the flood three hun-dred years ; ha 
saw the off-spring of his three sons who were with him in 
the ark grow to a great num-ber. The earth was then of 
one tongue, that is, they all spoke one and the same lan- 
guage. These, when they went from the east, found a 
plain, and dwelt in it. 

They then said each to his neigh -b*>ur, Come hi us make 
brick, and bake them with fire ; aad let us build a town, 
and a tower, the top of which may reach a? high as Hea- 
ven \ and let us make our mme great be-fore we dis-perse 
into all lands 



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But God, who laughs at the attempts of men, when 
they think to op-pose His will, soon shew-ed them how 
vain, and void of force, they were in their scheme. He 
knew they would not cease to work while they all spoke 
one and the same tongue. He then so con-fus ed their 
speech, and they no long-er knew the one what an-o-ther 
said or call-ed for. 

They were then for-ced to de-sist from their work. And 
that tow-er was cali-ed, and is known by the name of Ba-bel, 
that is, of coa-fu-sion ; be-cause there the tongue or speech 
of the whole earth was con.fu-sed, and of one it was chang-ed 
into many. Thence the Lord dis-pers ed them up-on the 
face of all the countries. 

MORAL. 

By this act and deed, you may see, my chi!d ; how vain it 
is for man to strive a gainst God: He is great, and of such 
might, that no man can op-pose what He will, or will not, 
have done. 

By the flood, and the change of speech, and by dis- 
persing man-kind through out the whole earth, He shew-ed 
that He is Lord of all, and that He can do what He pleas- 
eth, also, that He is wise and good ; and does all for the good 
of man. 

What love and praise then do we not owe Him ? Be- 
ware not to op.pose His will, but seek and pray to know it, 
and when you know it, beg Him to grant you His grace to 
com ply with it. 

And in all things that he-fall you, say, from your heart, 
O Lordj great and good, and wise and just ! Thy will be 
done. This done by the will and the hand of God, so be it, 
and may He be prais-ed. 

Lesson VII. 
A bra-ham. Gen. xxv. 

Jn a short time af-ter the de-luge, men lost all 
thought and fear of God. They e-ven did not own 
Him, who had hy such great works made Him-self 
known to them to be Qod ; but they set up for gods . 
the very works of God. Such were the sun, fire, moon, 
and stars: to these they prayed ; and they fell down 



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before stocks and stones, which were the works of their own 
hands. 

These they ca!l-ed and held for gods. Their whole 
mind, and thought, and care, was for this life and the 
body ; like unto brutes, they were led and rul ed by their 
sen-ses. Hence they did not mind their souls, nor the things 
of God nor of the next life. 

Such, my child, was the state of man-kind, at that 
time ; they liv-ed more like brutes, that know not God, 
than like men, whom God had made to know and to love 
him in this life, and af-ter this life to be hap-py with 
Him, in Hea-ven. In this sad state would most men hare 
been at this day, had not the good God by his grace pre- 
vented it. 

God then to call men from their evil ways, and to 
keep tbem firm in the love and fear of Him, calls 
forth a man who was good and just. His name was 
A-bra-ham. God promised him, if he would obey 
Him, that He would be a God to him, that is, he would 
bless him, and raise up a people from him, who should be 
His own peo-ple. 

He would take care of them, and pre-serve in them, 
and by them, the know-ledge, love, and fear of Him, 
who was the on-ly one and true God. A-bra-ham, be-liev- 
ed, and he did what-e-ver God bid him do. God also 
pro -mis-ed A-bra-ham, that of his seed or race, He should 
be born who should save the world. 

MORAL. 

Ee-ware, my child, not so to mind the things of this 
world and life, as to bend to them your whole or chief 
care. If you do, you "will lose the grace of God, and soon 
give in to the way of vicej and when you have lost the 
love and fear of God, then will jour life be more the life 
of a brute than a man. See in A-bra-ham what love and 
care God hath of those who love and serve Him. 

Hence, though you may chance to live with them 
that- live as if they knew not God, nor love, nor fear 
Him, do you a-bide firm in your faith of Him, and in 
good life. De-part not by sin from God and then He 
will be to you a God : he will bless you in this life, and 

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in the nest life He will make 70a happy with him for- 
ever. 

Lesson Vllf. 

The Faith and G-be-dience of Abraham, Isaac 
Esau, o.nd Jacob* 

God mide t e choice of A -bra- ham, before all men 
of this time, that by him, lie, the tsue God, nr'ght still be 
known and served, though most men had lost all sense 
of Him, A-bra-ham had a son whom he much loved. 
His name was I~sa-ac. When I-sa-ac was grown up in 
years, God, to try the faith of A-bra-ham, or his be-iief 
of what be had pro-mis-ed him, viz,, that he who was 
to save the world should be born of his seed, God called 
to him, A-bra-ham ! A-bra-ham ! to whom A-bra-ham said, 
Here 1 am. 

God then bid him to put to death his son I-sa-ac, 
whom he loved ; for God, my child, is tbe Lord of man 
and of his life, A-bra-ham would have done it as soon 
as God bade him 5 but just as he was up-on the point 
of slaying his son 1 sa-ac, an angel, or good spi-rit. sent on 
the part of God, stopped his hand, and thus the life of his 
son was spared. 

I-sa-ac, like his father, was a good man. He had 
two sons : their names were E-sau and Jacob, and they 
were twins, that is both born at one and the same birth ; 
E-sau was first born, but at the time Ja-cob came forth of 
the womb, he held in his hand the plaint, or the sole of 
E-sau's foot. 

By this was meant, what sf-ter- wards came to pass, 
when E-sau sold bis birth-right for a mess of broth. It 
was thus Jacob sup-plan-ted, or, as it where, trip-ped 
up the heel of his brother E-sau and got from him his 
birth right. Jacob was a good man and when his father 
was on his death bed be bless-ed him. But E-sau turned 
out bad. 

Ja-cob had twelve sons. They are kisown by the names 
of the twelve Pa-tri archs, or chief of twelve tribes. And 
God gave to Ja-cob the name of Is-ra-el, whence his race, 
or they that sprang from him, were called fs-ra-el-ites. 



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35 



Moral. — Great and firm you see my child, was the 
faith and trust of A-bra-ham in God ; and prompt was 
his o be-di-ence wheu Le could have slaia his- son Isaac ; 
God wants not our goods, nor snjfiiing we can give, for 
all is His. and all comes from Him, 

What he most seeks is our prompt will and heart tc do 
His will, as soon as He makes it known to us : and He 
1 ooks up-on that as done which we would hare done if such 
had been His will, 

Hence A-bra-ham is stjl-ed the Fa-ther of the Faith-fuL 
or of those who be-Heve in God. That jou may be a true 
child of God, by faith be-Iieve in Him, by hope trust ia 
Him, and through love o bey Him. thea will He bless 
you. 

From E-sau lean: my ctiid, kcw sad a thing it is to be 
too fond of. aad to set our heart too much on-, the things of 
this world. Such fond-ness blinds us, so that we no' long er 
know not what we love, nor what we lose. 

That which we long for, and seek to have, is of-ten of so 
more val-ue than a mess of broth if ccm-par-ed to the 
good things of the next life, that Trill have no end, which 
vet we lose with so much ease. 

Observe. — When my child you read that God, or the 
Lord, call ed to A-dam, or spoke to x\-bra-hara, or to 
Mo-ses or that they heard his voice, or saw Him, you 
are not to think that G-od did call or speak, or was heard, 
or seen in the same way as we speak, call. &c. 

No. not so i but as God can do what He pleas-eth and 
use such means as he may choose, to make known His 
will, or things, to us;«He by some . voice cr sound, 
brought to their ears and minds T ^hat He would have them 
to know, hear or do. 

And if they saw any thing which they thought to be 
God, it was not God whom they saw, for no man hath 
seen, or can see Him, but it was same-thing in the shape 
of mai which they saw : and by these means God re -veal - 
ed to their minds, and re-pre-sent-ed to them, things as 
ful-ly and clear \y } as if they re ai-ly sa"w Him, or heard 
His voice. 



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Lesson IX. 

Joseph and his Brothers. Gen. xxxvii. 

Of the twelve sons of Ja-cob, Jo-seph was dear-er to 
liim than a-ny of the rest. His bro-thers were griev-ed 
at it, and they ha-ted him. One day their fa-tber sent 
him to them, when they were in the fields with their flocks^ 
to see if all things were well with them. 

When he came to them, they said, Let us kill him. 
But one of them, by name Reu-ben, said, do not take his 
life from him, nor shed his blood, but cast him into this 
pit. They then strip-ped him of his coat, and cast him 
in. to the pit or well, which was dry. 

And when some merchants pass-ed by that way, his 
bro-thers drew him out of the well, and they sold him to 
them. They brought him in-to E gypt, and there they 
sold him to a prince, to be his slave. 

Jo-seph was a man that in all things did so well, that 
his master made him dwell in the house, and he was in 
great favour with him ) so far, that he was charg-ed with 
the care of all things, and he ruled in the house. 

When he had been there a while, his master's wife 
wish-ed and pressed him to do a great crime y but Jo-seph 
was good, and fear-ed God, and he would by no means 
con- sent to do it. How can I com-mit a wick-ed 
thing, said he, and sin a-gainst my God ! No. He then 
rush-ed from her. 

She then char-ged him falsely with the crime, and he 
was cast into pri-son. When he had been there two 
years, the King sent for him to 1 ex-plain him his dreams, 
Jo seph ex-plain-ed them. 

Then the King took his ring from his own hand, and 
gave it in4o the hand of Jo-seph ; he cloth ed him with a 
silk robe, and put a chain of gold a-bout his neck : he 
dade all bow their knee to him, and told them he was to 
rule the whole land of Egypt. 

Not long after there was a dearth, or great want of 
corn, and Jo-seph had the care of all the corn, Ja-cob 
the .fa-lher of Jo-seph, then sent his brothers to buy corn 
of him. 



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At first they did not know Jo-seph ; and though he 
knew them, yet he feign-ed as if he did cot know them, 
and he dealt with them as if they were spies. This he 
did to bring them by de-grees to a sense of their fault, 
when through en-vy they sold him \ yet did Jo-seph love 
them. 

He soon made him-self known to them. He wept 
through joy, kiss ed them, and for-gave them. He then 
sent for bis old father, who came to him. Jo-seph took 
care of him and his brothers. They lived in those parts ; 
and when Ja-cob was dead, Jo-seph buried him in the place 
^here he had de-si-red to be bu-ri-ed. 

MORAL, 

Thus you see 5 rny child, tbat God doth not for-get nor 
fbr-sake them that fear and love Him. Though he some- 
times seems not to be mind-ful of them in their dis-tress, yet 
in due time He comes to their aid and corn-fort, and He 
makes all that be-falls them to turn to their good. 

Be chaste, my child, like Jo-seph ; do not stain your 
soul and life by an un-clean act, or thought, or look. Keep 
a guard upon your eyes and heart, and flee those per-sons 
who would lead you to sin ; ra-ther die than of-fend God. 
Like Jo-seph for-get and for-give the wrongs done to you 
by an-other. Re-vere your parents, take care of them, 
and help them all that you can in their old age, and in time 
of want, and at all times. 

Lesson X 
Mo-ses. Ex-o-dus ii. 

Mo-ses was an other great and good man. Soon after 
he was born, his mother hid him for the space of three 
months. This she did to save him from being put to death 
with o-ther cbil dren whom the King had or-der-ed to be 
killed. When she could no longer keep him hid, she 
made a basket of bul.rush-es and daub-ed it with pitch. — 
She then laid him in it, and set the bas-ket near the wa-ter's 
side. 

When the king's daugh-ter came down to wash her self, 
she es-pi-ed the basket, and the child in it. — 



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She took him out of it and gave him to his own mother, 
though she was not known to be such, and she said to her, 
Take this child and nurse him for me. When 
be was grown up the King's daughter a-dopt-ed him 
for her son, and she gave him the name of Mo-ses, saying, 
Because from water did I take him. And sha brought 
him up. 

MORAL. 1 

All this, my child, did not come to pass by chance ; 
no, such was the will of God, and his hand or power 
brought all that about. Thus God, by ways and means 
that seem strange to men, rules all things, and brings 
them to pass as He pleas-eth, to the glory of his name aad 
to our. good. Thus you must think, and judge of all the 
events in life. 

Lesson XI. 

The Plagues of E-gypt. Ex. iii. vii, viii, ix. 

God made use of Mo-ses to free his peo-ple from the 
slavery un-der which Pharaoh the King of Egypt held 
A-bra-ham, !-sa-ac, and Jacob, and were cail-ed Js-ra-el 
ites. God shewed him-self to Mo-ses, or the glory of 
God ap-pear-ed to hiai in a flame of fire, out of the midst of 
a bush. The bush burn ed, yet did not waste. 

And God, from the midst of the bush, called to bim, 
Mo-ses ! Mo-ses ! Mo-ses. Then said he, Here I am. And 
he went to see the bush ; but God said to him, Do not come 
near ; loo*e off thy shoes from thy feet, for the place on 
which thou dost stand is ho-ly ground. 

Then God said, i am the God of thy father, the God of 
A-bra-ham, the God of I-sa-ac, snd the God of Ja-cob- 
Mo-ses then hid his face, for he durst not look at God. ' 

Then God said to him, The cry of the children of 
Israel is come up to ire. Come and I will send the un-to 
Pha-ra-oh, that thou may-est bring forth my peo-ple. I 
will be with thee, and 1 will stretch out my hand, asd I 
will smi f e E-gypt with my won-ders. 

These won-ders God did by Mo-ses to make the 
king submit to his will, and let his peo-ple go thence. — 
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with a rod that he held in hU band, the water in the . 
and in-stant-ly it was cbang-ed in-to blood. 

He made frogs come and leap a-bout in all parts, ever. 
in their bouses. He brought a-rnong them flies and gnats 
that bit them sore-ly. He brought a plague on the cafe-tie, 
sores on men, a storm of hail, thick dark-ness that lasted 
three days. 

Last of all, God sent an angel who kill-ed all the iirst- 
bcrn of the E gyp-ti-ans. from the son of the king to the 
son of the mean-est slave. This last plague so fright-en-ei 
the King, that in the same hour he press-ed the Is-ra-el-ites 
to go forth and leave the coua-try ; and they drove them 
out of the land of Egypt, and they load-ed them with 
rich-es. 

MORAL. 

Thus yen >ee, my child, God can do, and doth, what Ke 
pleas eth. and no one can with-stand Him. See a-gaia, 
how dread-iul it is to bar-den our hearts, and to shut our 
ears to the call and grace of God. 

For, though God be good, yet He is just, and strong to 
strike, to punish us when we pro-yoke Hiua by our ob-sti- 
nacy ia sin-ing against Him. Love God, fear God, and 
do His will, that He may bless you. 
Lesson XII. 

The Is-ra-el-ites pais dry shod through the Red Sea, 
Ex-o-dus. xiv. 

No sooner were the Is ra-el-ites gone, than Pba ra-ok 
was vex-ed that he had let them depart. He then with 
his ar-my set out after them, to stop them. He came up 
to them on the banks of the Red Sea ; and then they gave 
them-selves up for lost. 

But Moses stretcb-ed out his ban 1 o-ver the sea, and 
in-stan-tly God made the sea o-pen. and the wa-ter re-tir-ed 
to each side, and stood like a wall on the right and the 
left, leav ing a large and dry space ia the midst through 
which the Is-ra-el-ites pass-ed dry-shod. 

The E-gyp-tl-ans would fain have fol-low-ed them ; but 
Mo-ses a-gain stretch-ed out his hand, and God. made 



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the sea join its wa-ters, in which they were all drown-ed ? 
with Pha-ra-oh their king \ and they saw ths E-gyp-ti-ans 
dead on the shore. 

Then Mo-ses and the Is-ra-el-ites sang to the Lord, and 
said, Let us sing to the Lord. My strength and my praise 
is the Lord. This is my God. He hath drown-ed Pha-ra-oh 
and his army in (he Red Sea. Who is like to Thee O God. 

MOBAL. 

Thus, my child, God took care of his peo-ple and sav-ed 
them. He shew-ed that he was Lord of all. So will he 
have care of you if you love and serve Him. 

Put then, your whole trust in Him, call upon him, pray 
to Him, and he will save you from harm, and when He 
thus shews Him-self kind and care-ful of you, do you praise 
and thank Him from your heart. 

Lesson XIII. 
The Jour-ney through the Desert. The Ten Command- 
ments. Ex. xvi, xix, xx. 

When the Is-ra-el-ites had pass-ed the Red Sea, God led 
them through a vast de-sert, or a wild and vast part of 
land in which no one dwelt. This He did, to try if they 
would be faith-ful to him, and to let them see that they 
could not live with-out his care and kind-ness. 

A cloud led them the way by day, and it screen-ed them 
from the beat of the sun. At night it was chang-ed in-to 
a pil-lar of fire, that serv-ed to light them: For their food, 
God gave them Man-na. It was a kind of dew that fell 
from the hea-vens ; and it was so thick that they made bread 
of it. 

When they were in want of drink, Mo-ses struck with 
his rod a rock, out of which in-stantly there gush-ed forth 
wa'er. TLeir clothes were not worn out, though their 
jour-ney last-ed forty years. 

Such care did God take of them ; yet they were un-grate- 
ful to Him ; tliey long-ed to be again in E-gypt, and they 
were for kiil-ing Mo-ses. 

In the third month after they left E-gypt they 
came to Mount Si-na-i. There God made them halt 
a while, that He might give them his law. When the 
day was come on which they were to re-ceive it, 



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they beheld the top of the moun-tain all on fire. 

Then a thick cloud co-ver-ed it, and out of it broke forth 
dread-ful thunder and light-ning. They heard a sound of 
trum-pets, and a great noise, but they saw no one. Then 
a loud and dread-ful voice broke forth out of the cloud, and 
spoke these words : 

J am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the 
land of E-gypt, and out of the house of bond-age. Thou 
shalt not have strange Gods be-fore me. Thou shalt not make 
to thy«self a gra-ven thing, nor the likeness of any-thing 
that is in hea-ven a-bove, or in the earth be-neath, or in the 
wa-ters un-der the earth. Thou shalt not adore nor serve 
them. 

I am the Lord thy God, strong and jea-Ious, vi-sit-ing 
the sins of the fa-thers up-on their chil-dren, to the third 
and forth ge-ne-ra-tion, of them that hate me ; and shew- 
ing mer cy to thou-sands of those that love me, and keep 
my com-mand-ments. 

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in 
vain; for the Lord will not hold him guilt-less that shall 
take the name of the Lord his God in vain. 

Re mera-ber that thou keep ho-Iy the Sab-bath day. — 
Six days shalt thou work, and shalt do all thy works. — 
But on the sev-enth day is the Sab-bath of the Lord thy 
God : thou shalt do no work on it, thou, nor thy son, nor 
thy daughter, nor thy man-ser-vant, nor thy wo-man-ser- 
vant, nor thy beast, nor the stranger that is within thy 
gates. 

For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and 
the sea, and all things that are in them, and rest ed on the 
sev-enth: there fore the Lord bless-ed the Sab-bath day 
and sanc-ti-fi-ed it. 

Ho nour thy fa-ther and tby mo-ther that thou may-est 
live long up-on the earth which the Lord thy God will 
give thee. Thou shalt not mur-der. Thou shalt not com- 
mit a-dul-te-ry. Thou shalt not steal. 

Thou shalt not speak a-gainst thy neigh-bour false tes- 
timony. Thou shalt not co-vet thy neigh-bour's house,- 
nei-ther shalt thou desire his wife, nor ser-vant, nor hand- 
maid, nor ox, nor ass, nor a-ny-thing that is his, 



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These are the Ten Com -rnand-ments which God pub-fish- 
ed to his people ; and he gave them writ-ten on two ta- 
bles of stone to Mo-ses, who was at that time on the Mount 
in the clouds. 

Though by the thun-der and light-ning God would move 
them and us to care-fu! keeping of them, yet His will fa 
rather that we grave them in our hearts, and keep them 
not so much through our fear, as through our love of Him. 

Keep them, my child all the days of your life, and you 
will please God, and He will bless you here, and after this 
life you will see him in all His glo-ry, and en-joy Him for- 
ever. 

Lesson XIV. 
Da-vid and Go-li-ah, 1 Kings, xvii. 

The peo-ple of God had for a long time been rul-ed by 
Judg-es. At length, th?y desired to have Kings. Their 
first king was Saul. In his reign he fought raa-ny bat- 
tles. And in his time there came forth from the camp of 
the Phi!-i3-tines, who were e-ne-mies to the Is-ra-el-ites, a 
man whose name was Go-li-ah. 

He was six cu-bits, that is, three yards, or nine feet, 
and a span high. He had on his head a hel-raet of brass, 
and he was arm-ed with a coat of mail of ve-ry great 
weight ; he had greaves of brass on his leg ; and a staff in 
his hand which was like a large beam. 

This huge man stood day after day and crieti to the Is- 
ra-el-ites. Choose out a man of you, and let him come 
down to me. If he be a-ble to fight with me, and to kill 
me, then will we be your servants ; but if I kill him, thea 
shall ye be our ser-vaats, and serve us. 

Now there was a man whose name was Jesse, and he 
had eight sons. The youngest of them was call-ed Da- 
vid. He used to tend his fa-thers sheep. One morn ing 
he rose up ear-ly and went to the camp. At the same time 
came Go-li-ah. 

When the men cf Is-ra-el saw the man, they were 
a-fraid and fled from him. And tbey said to Da-vid, 



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Have you seen this man that is come to defy us ? David 
said to the men who stood by him, What shall be dGne to 
the man that shall kill Go-li-ah ? 

And they said to him, To the man who kill-eth Go-li-ah 
the king will give great rich-es and his daugh-ter, and he 
will make his father's house free. 

Da-vid then went to Saul, and said to him, Let no 
man's heart fail bs-cause of Go-li-ah : thy servant will go 
and fight with him, Saul said to Da-vid, Thou art not 
ab-le to fight with him, for thou art but a s'rip ling, but 
he is a man trained to war from his youth. 

Da-vid said to Saul, I kept my fa-ther's sheep, and there 
came a li-on and the bear, that took a lamb out of the 
flock 5 and I went out and I smote them. I slew both the 
li-on and the bear 5 and this man shall be as one of 
them. 

David al-sosaid, the Lord, who sa-ved me out ef the 
paw of the li-on, and cut of the paw of the bear, He wilt 
save me out of tbe hand of this man. And Saul said to 
Da-vid ? Go, and the Lord be with thee. 

Then Saul cloth-ed Ba-vid with a coat of mail, and put 
a hel-met of brass up-on his head. When Da-vid was thus 
cloth ed ; and gird-ed with a sword, he tried if he could go 
thus armed ; but he said to Saul, I cannot go so ; and he 
put them off. 

He then took his staff, and he choose five smooth bright 
stones out oi the brook, and he cast them into his scrip. 
Then he took a sling in his hand, and went forth a-gainat 
Go-li-ah. 

When Go-li-ah saw Da-vid, he said to him, Am I a dog, 
that thou com-est to me with a staff? come to me, and"! 
will give thy flesh to the fowls of the air, and to the beasts 
of the earth. 

Then Da-vid said to him, Thou com-est to me with a 
spear, and a sword, and a shield ; but I come to thee in 
the name oj the Lord of Hosts. The Lord of the bands of 
Is-rael, whom thou hast this day de-fied, He, the Lord, 
shall give thee in-to my hands, and I shall strike thee 5 and 
take a- way thy head from thee. 



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And I shall give the car-cas-ses of the camp of the Phil- 
is-tines to the fowls of the air and to the beasts of the 
earth, that all the earth may know there is a God in 
Is-ra-el. And all here shall know that not in the sword, 
nor io the spear, doth the Lord save ; for it is His bat-tie, 
and He will give thee into our bands. 

Then Go-li-ah rose up, and earae a-gainst David. Da-vid 
then put his hand in-to his scrip, and took one stone, and 
cast it with a sling, and struck Go-li-ah on the fore-head, 
who fell on his face upon the ground. And where-as 
Da-vid had no sword, he run and stood upon Go-li-ah, and 
he took his sword, and with it he slew him and cut of his 
head. 

Da-vid then took Go-li-ah's head and he brought it in-to 
Je-ru-sa-lem. Then Ab-ner, the prince of the army, took 
Da-vid and he brought him to Saul, having in his hand 
the head of Go-ii ah. Saul took Da-vid that day, and 
would let him go no more home to his father's house. And 
David went out whi-ther-so-e-ver Saul sent him : and he 
be-hav-ed wise-Jy : and Saul placed him over the men of 
war, and he wasac-cept-ed in the eyes of the peo-ple. 

MORAL. 

Thus a-gain you see, my child, that God doth what He 
pleas-etb. The weak he makes strong, and the strong He 
renders weak. Da-Tid fights, and acts in the name, and by 
the strength of God, and not in his own. 

If we trust in God, and not in our own strength, He 
will be for us, and help us ; and if He be for us, and with 
us 5 who or what can hurt us ? what have we to fear ! 

But as with-out Him we are nothing, so with-out 
Him we can do no-thing. He hates the proud and 
ar-ro-gant ; but He looks down on the humble, and to 
them He gives His grace, by which they might do great 
things. 

Lesson XV. 
Bacid made King. 2 Kings, ii. * 

After the death of Saul, Da-vid was cho-sen King. 
He was a great man, as you have seen : and was al- 



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so a good man. He in-deed sin ned against God by two 
great crimes, murder and a-dul-te-ry ; but he re-pent-ed of 
them, su-ed to God to par-don him, and God did pardon him. 
He then lov-ed, fear-ed, and serv-ed God all the days of 
his life, with his whole heart. David was al-so a man of 
bright parts, and well skill-ed in mu-sic and po-e-sy. He 
eom-pos-ed a great number of can-ti-cles, or songs, in 
praise of God. These are the Psalms which are sung to 
this day in the Church. 

God made known to him, that He who was to save the 
world should be born of his race, and that he should be 
a king, and reign, not only over the house of Ts-ra-el, but 
o-ver all the na-tions of the Earth and that of his king-dom 
there should be no end ; that He (the Sa-vi-our of the 
World) should be the Son of God, and God him-self. All 
this was re-veal-ed by God to Da-vid. 

The Is ra-el-ites nam-ed the Re-deem-er, whom tbey ex- 
pect-ed, as the Jews do to this day, the Messiah, or the 
Christ. By the name is meant a noint-ed, because it was 
u«su-al to a-noint with oil those who were made Kings, 
Priests and Prophets ; and Christ was a King, a Priest and 
a Pro-phet. They like- wise call-ed him the Son of Da-vid. 

Moral. — Thus, my child, those who seem, in the eyes of 
men, to be mean, poor, and low, and of no ac-count, are 
made use of bj God to bring a-bout the great ends of His 
love, good-ness, and mer-cy, to sin-fui men. 

The fool-ish things of the world hath God cho-sen to con- 
found the wise ; and the weak things of the world that he 
may con-found the strong ; and the base things of the 
world hath God cho-sen, and things that are not, that he 
might bring to naught things that are, that no flesh should 
glo-ry in His sight. 

If a-ny time, my child, you of-fend God by sin, de-lay 
not to re-turn to Him : be sorry, crave his mercy, and beg 
his par-don, and re -solve not to sin a-gain. 

Lesson XVI. 

The In-car-na-tion and Birth of Jesus. 
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A-dam and Eve, lost, by their sin, the grace and fa-vour of 
God, and were driven out of Pa-ra-dise. They more-o-ver 
were not, after this life, to have been hap-py with God in 
heaven : and, as we all sin-ned in them, we were to have 
been in the like sad state, had not God shew-ed mer-cy to 
them and to us. 

He there-fore took pi-ty on mankind, and sent His Son 
to re-deem us from sin, and to save us from hell. This 
Son was he whom God had pro mis ed to A-dam, A-bra- 
iiam, Ja-cob and Da-vid: but he did not come till four 
thou- sand years af-ter the fall of A-dam and Eve. 

Now his birth was after this manner: When the time 
ap-point-ed by God was come, God sent from hea-ven an 
an-gel, whose name was Ga-bri-el, to a young vir-gin, whose 
name was Ma-ry. She was of the race of Da-vid. The 
an-gel in-form ed her from God that she should bring 
forth, and be the mother of. the Messiah, Christ, or Re- 
deemer. 

Thou shalt have a Son, said the an-gel to Mary, and 
thou shalt call his name Jesus. He shall be great, and shall 
be called the Son of the Most High. She gave her con- 
sent, and in-stant-Iy she con-ceiv-ed in her womb Christ* 
He that was God, took flesh, and our na-ture, and be-came 
like to us, though not with sin and ig-no-rance. And he 
was born of her in Beth-le-hem, a small town, where Da-vid 
bad his birth. 

His rno-ther, the b!e?s-ed Vir-gin Ma-ry, and his fos-ter 
or re-put ed fa-ther, Saint Jo-seph, at that time were on 
the^r jour-ney, and as tkere was no room for them in the 
inns, they were con-strain-ed to lodge in a sta-ble. In that 
poor place, she brought forth in-to the world, her son 
Christ, who was to save the world. She wrapped Him in 
gwad-dling clothes, and laid him in a man-ger. 

And there were in the same country, shepherds, watch- 
ing, and keep-ing the night watch-es o-ver their flocks. 
And, be- hold, an an-gel of the Lord stood by them and the 
bright-ness of God shone round a-bout them, and they fear- 
ed with a great fear. 



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And an an-gel said to them, Fear not for be-bold I bring 
you good tidings of great joy that shall be to all the peo- 
ple 3 for this day is born to you a Sa-vi-our who is 
Christ the Lord, in the city of Da-vid ; and this shall be 
a sign to ycu, you shall find the in-fant wrap-ped in swad- 
dling clothes, and laid in a manger. 

And sud-den-ly there was with the ao-gel a mul-ti-tude 
of the hea-ven-ly host praising God, and say-ing Glory 
be to God in the bigh-est, and on earth peace to men and 
goodwill. And it came to pass af-ter the an-gel de-part- 
ed from them in-to hea-ren, the shep-herds said one to 
an-o-tber, Let us go o-ver to Beth-le-henr and let us see 
this Word that is come to pass, which the Lord hath 
shew-ed us. 

And they came with haste, and they found Ma-ry and 
Jo-seph and the in-fant ly-ing in the man.ger ; and seeing 
they un-der-stood of the Word that had been spo ken to 
them con-cer-ning this child. And the shep-herds re-turn- 
ed glori-fy-ing and praising God for all the things they had 
heard and seen ; as it was told unto them. 

MORAL. 

This my child is the great work of God, out of His 
pure lore to us. The word was made flesh, the Son 
of God be-carne man, and he dwelt a-mong us. A-dore 
and praise him, and give him thanks. In bis birth he 
is poor and as the out-cast of men. If then jou be 
poor, re-pine not at your state, since Christ was poor for 
your sake. 

Lesson XVII. 
Of Christ after his Birth. 

On the eighth day af-ter Christ was born, he was called 
Je-sus, or Sa-vi-our. At this name we bow our heads, to 
give him a mark of our res-pect, as our Lord ; and of our 
lore and thanks as our Re-deem-er. 

At. the name of JE-SUS let every knee boio. Short- ly 
af-ter, three kings, or wise men came out of the east to 
a-dore Him, 

They were guid-ed on their way by a bright star 
on- til it came and stood o-rer where the child Jes-us 



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was. And enter ing in-to the house, they found the chi'd 
with Ma-ry his mo-ther ; and fall-ing down, they a-dor-ed 
him ; and opening their trea-sures, they offer-ed him gifts 
— gold, frank-in-cense, and myrrh. 

ITp-on this, King Her-od, through jea-lousy, would 
have put him to death : and to that end he gave or-ders 
that all the male chil-dren in and about Beth-le-hem, of the 
age of two years, should be slain; and they were killed. 
These are call-ed the Ho-ly In-no-cents. 

But Christ was saved j for an angel of the Lord ap- 
pealed to Joseph, while a-sleep, and said, a-rise, and take 
the child and his mo-ther, and flee in-to Egypt, and there 
be un-til I .shall tell thee : for it will come to pass that 
He rod will seek the child to destroy him. And they did 
not re-turn to the land of Js-ra-el till after the death of 
He-rod. 

At the age of twelve years, Je sus went with his pa- 
rents to Je-ru-sa-Jem ; for the feast of the Pas-so-ver; 
there they lost him ; and on the third day they found 
him in the Tern-pie seat-ed a-midst the doc-tors, hearing 
them, and asking them questions, He then re-turn-ed 
with them to Na-za-reth, and liv-ed sub-ject to them ; and 
lie ad-van-ced in wisdom, and in age, and in grace be-fore 
God and man. 

MORAL. 

Af-ter the ex-am-ple of Je-sus, you must en-dea-vour, as 
you ad-vance in age, also to ad-vance in vir-tue and 
piety. To that end, be di-li-gent at school ; there hear 
your teach-ers, be subject to them, and to your pa-rents, 
and let no day pass with-out pray-ing to God $ beg of Him 
to give you His grace to know Him more and more ; to 
love Him more and more, and to serve Him more and more 
faithfully. 

Lsson XVIII. 
The Mi-ra-cles of Jesus Christ. 

Af-ter Je-sus re-turned to Na-za-reth with his pa- 
rents, we read little more of him \ but he lived un-known 
to the age of thir-ty years. At that age he was bap tiz-ed 
by Saint John, who is there-fore call-ed the Bap-tist. He 
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Af-ter that, he came forth,, and he ehose twelve poor 
men ; these are ca!!-ed the A-pas-tles ; that is to say, en- 
tojs^ or per-s:ns sent, be-cause be sent them to preach and 
teach the Gos-peU Je-sus, in the course of three years, 
wrought a great ma-Dy mi-ra-cles ; that is, he did those 
things which uo man can do, 

But as he was God as well as man, he could do all 
what-e-ver he pleased, h 3 cur-ed ail sorts of (jis-eas-es, the 
fe-ver, the flux of blood, the drop-sy, the-pal-sy, the le-pro-sy, 
of- ten by a word, and when he was not near the sick 
per- son. 

He gave sight to the blind ; he made the dumb speak, 
the deaf tear, the lams walk 5 he brought to life those who 
were dead ; a-mong these we read in par-ti-cu-lar of a 
young girl who was just dead ; a young man who his mo- 
ther was con-vey-ing to the grave ] and La-za-rus, who had 
been bu-ri-ed four days. 

He was seen to walk on the sea ; and he made Saint 
Peter do the like. Oae day he fed five thousand per-sons 
with five loaves of bread and two fish-es, an-o-ther time 
he fed four thousand with seven loaves. He knew the 
thoughts of men. 

All these won-ders prov-ed that he was, as he said of 
him-self, the Christ, and the Son of God. And three of 
his dis-ci-ples heard a voice from hea-ven that said of him, 
this is my be-lo-ved Son, in whom lam well pleas-ed \ 
hear ye him. 

MORAL. 

You must, ray child, hear him when he speaks to you, 
and makes his wi'l known to you by the voice of your pa- 
rents and teach-srs, for if you hear and obey them, you 
hear and obey him. 

It is by them God will shew you what you must do to 
please Him, and to save your soul. If you do these things, 
he will be pleased with you, and ble-s you, and af-ter your 
death, He will make you happy with Him in hea-ven. 
Lesson XIX. 
The Vir-tues of Jesus Christ. 
At the same time Je-sus did all those mi-ra cles 
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50 THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL BOOK, 

He gave an ex-ample of all sorts of virtues. He was 
humble, meek, kind and good to all. He went a-bout 
doing good to all. He was not vain nor proud. He 
said, I seek not my own glory . I do the things that are 
pleasing to my Father. I do the will of Him who sent 
me. 

Though he was the Son of God, yet He call-ed himself 
the Son of Man. He de-part-ed from those who would fain 
have made him their King. One day some chil-dren were 
pre-sent-ed to him ; he em brac-ed them, and bless-ed them. 
He pass-ed his life in po-ver-ty and want, not hav-ing 
land nor house, nor so much as a place where to rest his 
head. 

He suf-fer-ed heat, cold, hua-ger, thirst, and fa-tigue. 
He of-ten pass-ed the whole night in prayer. My meat 
he said, is to do the will of Him who stent me. When re- 
vil-ed, called an im-pos-ter, se da-oer, glut-ton, he did not 
re-vtle again, but bore all in sil ence. 

MORAL 

Endeavour, my child, to co-py in you the life and vir- 
tues of Je-sus ; shun pride and vain glory. In all your 
thoughts, words, and ac-tions, seek only the glo-ry of God 
not the es-teem of men. 

Be meek, and ready to serve and do good to e-ve-ry 
one, e-ven to the poor-est wretch on earth. Love God, 
and serve God, because such is the vu'l of God, and he 
hath made you for that end. 

Lesson XX. 
The doc-trim of Jesus Christ. 
Learn now, my child, the truths which Jesus taught, 
and which you must be-lieve if you would please God, and 
save your soul. God has made you and placed you in 
this world, to know, love, and serve Him. Itisthenby 
faith you must know Him, and be-lieve all that He teach- 
es 5 by hope you must re-ly on Him, for his grace and help, 
to live well, and by tha-ri-ty, you are to love him above 
all things. 

These are the three chief virtues. Je-sus teach eth 
that life e-ver-last-ing, or the way to gain it, is to 
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Christ, whom God hath sent to re-deem us, and teach us. 

He teach-#th that He and ' the Fa-ther are but oee 5 
hence that he is God, as his Fa-ther is God: and he 
tells his A-pos-tles that he will send them the Spirit, 
who pro-ceeds from the Fa-th&r ; ajid he adds he shall 
receive of mine, to teach it you ; because all that is 
the Father's is mine. This shews, that the Holy-Ghost 
or Spir-it pro-ceeds from the Father and from the Son, 
and yet that all three, the Fa-ther, the Son, and the Holy 
Ghost, are but one and the same God. 

And as Je-sus is God, it fol-lows that He is both 
God and Man, since he took to himself the na-ture of 
man. And He shows it clear-ly, when He saith, No 
one hath as-cend-ed in-to hea-ven, but He who is come 
down from hea-ven, the Son of Man who is in hea-ven. 

^hese truths, my child, are the ground-work of your 
faith, or be-lief. They are called the My-ste^tes of the 
U-ni-ty, or of One Gcd, and of the Trini-ty, or of Three 
per-sons in One God, and of God the Son tekiog flesh, and 
be-ing made man. 

They are call -^ Mysteries, that i-, s'e-cret truths, 
hid-den from us, or what are a-bove our know-ledge, or 
com pre-hen-sion ; yet must we be-lieve them, be-cause 
God, who is truth it-self, hath revealed them, and 
Je-sus-Christ hath taught them. And as God is all-wise 
and good, He there-fore can-not be de-ceiv-ed, nor de- 
ceive us. 

That your faith of these truths may in-crease and be 
firm, of-ten make this, or the like act of faith. O God, 
I be-lieve Thou art the only true God ! O Jesus 
Christ; I be-lieve Thou art the Son of the liv-ing God, 
who cam-est down from hea-ven and wast made Man for 
us and our sal-va-tion. O Holy Ghost, I believe Thou 
art the Divine Spi-rit pro-ceed-ing from the Father aind 
the Son ; and with them, One and the same God. O 
bless-ed Trinity, One God. 

ITejbson XXI. 

The maxims of Jesus Christ. 
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with-out Him, we can do no-thiog. As it is in God, and 
by God, that we live, move* and are, so it is on-ly by His 
grace and help that we can do good un-to our e-ter-nal sal- 
va tion. As the branch can-not bear fruit if it do not 
a-bide on the tree, so nei-ther can we bring forth the fruit 
of good works, if we do not a-bide in God by faith, hope, 
and love, and He give us not His grace. 

Christ, saiih, speak-ing of him-self, I am the way, the 
t?u h, and the life. He is the way, in what he teach-es 
by His word and by His life which we must copy. He 
is tin tiuth, by what he pro-rnis-es; and He is the life 
by the grace which we re-ceive through Him, and we 
4i nvo nte i of this grace ; for he saith, No man can come 
to me,un-less the Fa-ther who hath sent me, draw him. 

This gi ace is, His free gift ; hence we must beg it of 
God. Ask, saith he, and it shall he giv en to you ;"*seek, 
and you bha.il find. And it is He who must teach us how- 
to pray, and what to ask. Thus he teach-eth us. When 
you pray, say, Our Fa-ther, who art in Heaven, &c. Tliis 
pray-cr is call-ed the Lord's Prayer. 

He more-o-ver teaches us not to con-fine our hope to the 
earth and to this life; for we are here but for a short 
time ; for aiew years or days, as it may please God, who 
is the Lord of the life of man. We are not then to heap 
up rich-es here, but to lay up a treasure in hea-ven by a 
life of good works. 

He tells us, there are two ways, and two gates : but that 
we must strive to enter at the nar-row gate, and walk 
in the straight way; for this leads ^to life, but is found 
by few, be-cause there are few who choose it ; the greaf-er 
part of men pre-fer the broad way that leads to death and 
ruin. 

To fol-low Je-sus in the straight and narrow way to 
hea-ven, we must, my child, re-nounce the de-vil, and his 
and its pomps : the flesh and its 
the cross by the prac-tice of 
God, and keep his com-mand- 
we shall af-ter our death en-ter 
and be happy for e-ver with 



works of sin ; the 



worM 
car-ry 



Ibaits. We must 
virtue. We must love 
aients. If we do this, 
into life e-ver-last-ing, 
^od. 



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For my child, there will come a day and an hour when 
you must die, and leave this world and all that is in it ; 
for since A-dam sin-ned we are all doomed to die ; and 
when we are dead, our bo-dies will be laid un-der ground, 
and they will mould-er in-to dirt and dust. 

But our souls will be judg-ed by God, and ac cord-ing as 
we have liv-ed'well or ill in this life, we shall live for e-ver 
ei-ther in hap-pi-ness or mi-se-ry, be-yond what can be en- 
joy-ed or en-dur-ed in this life, or what we are a-ble to con- 
ceive. The souls of some who have not been very good 
dur-ing part of their life time and yet have had par-don 
of their sins, will go in-to a pri-son call-ed Pur-ga-to-ry, for 
a while. 

And at the last day, all that are in the graves will hear 
the voice of the Son of God, and they will come from their 
graves to be judged by him pub-li-cly, of all their thoughts, 
words and deeds, done in this life, good and bad. And 
they who have done good, will then go bo-dy and soul to a 
life of hap-pi-ness that will ne-ver end, of such joy andof 
such good things as no man ev-er saw, or can con-ceive ; 
and they who have done e-vil will be cast bc-dy and soul 
in-to hell fire. 

To one of these ends, you my child must one day come. 
Live well, then, that you may die well ; for as you live, so 
you will die, and be hap-py or mi-ser-a-hle for ev-er after 
death. This is the sum of what Je-sus taught, arid of what 
you must be-lieve and prac-tice till death. Be wise then, 
now in time ; for when the hour of your death is come 
it will be too late to set a-bout it ; you may then wish to 
do, and to have done well \ but wish-es then will be in 
vain. 

Lesson XXII. 

The Sufferings and Death of Jesus Christ. 

Though Je-sus was much fol-low-ed and ad-mir-ed, 
for peo-ple came from all parts to see and hear Him, yet 
there were some who hated Him so far as to seek His 
death. And, though in the whole course of His life He 

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did no harm, but was good and kind to all, yet He was ill— 
treat-ed. 

More than once the Jews took up stones to stone Him, 
They re-proach-ed Him, say-tog, He hath a de-vil, and 
was mad. If then Je-sus was so ill-treated, learn from 
Him to bear pa-ti-ent-ly what ill-treat-ment may be-fall 
you, and for-give them that hate you^ or do you any 
wrong. 

At length the Jews were re-sol-ved to take a-way his 
life. It was at the time of the Pass-over, a great feast 
ob-serv-ed by them, they con-triv-ed to do it. But be-fore 
. they did it, Je-sus, when he was at his last sup-per with 
his dis-ci-ples, the night be-fore He di-ed, gave them his 
bo-dy and blood in this man-ner : 

He took bread in-to his hands ; He bless-ed it, and 
broke it. He then gave his bo-dy to them, and said, Take 
and eat ; This is my bo-dy. He then gave them his 
blood thus : He took the cup with some wine and wa-ter 
in it, and said to them, Take and drink 5 This is my blood. 
When he did this, He in-sti-tut-ed the Sa-cra-ment of the 
Holy Eu-cha-rist, and the Sa-cri-fice of the Mass. 

After he had done this, He went forth in-to a gar- 
den, and there He pray-ed to his Fa-ther. Father! if 
it be pos-si-ble, let pass from me this cha-lice (by which 
He meant his pas-sion and death,) yet, not as I will, but as 
Thou wilt ; Thy will be done. 

Whilst He was thus pray-ing, Ju-das, one of his dis-ci- 
ples, brought with him arm-ed men to seize Je-sus.— 
They seiz-ed Him, and thus led Him to Cai-phas, the 
High Priest. From Cai-phas they led Him to Pi-late; 
from Pi-late to He-rod and again to Pi-late. 

They blind-fold-ed Him, scoffed at Him, spit in his 
face, strip-ped off his clothes, and ti-ed Him to a pil- 
lar ; there they scourg-ed Him ; they then cloth-ed 
Him with an old pur-ple gar-ment, put a reed in-to his 
hand, and a crown of thorns on his head ; set Him on a 
stool, and then a-dor-ed Him as a mock king. Af-ter 
all this cru-el treat-ment, they nailed Him by his hands 
and his feet to a cross. This was done at noon 
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He bung on the cros3 in great pain and a-go-ny un-til 
three o'clock in the af-ter-noon, when He ex-pir-ed. Thus 
di-ed Je-sus to save the world. At His death the sun 
was dark-en-ed, rocks were split, and the dead rose from 
their graves. 

Oh! my child, how great must have been the ev-il cf 
the sin of our first pa-rents ! since to re-deem us from it, 
to re-con-cile man-kind to God, and to set hea-ven o-pen. 
to us, Christ, the Sen of God, made man. suf-fer-ed so 
much and at last died on the cross ! 

Great was his love for us. Love him then, and through 
love of Him see you do not com-mit sin. Hate and de- 
test it as the worst thing that can be-fall you in this life. 
Of-ten think on what Je-sus hath done and suf-fer-ed for 
you; praise and fhank Him; and beg you may reap the 
fruit of it by his grace here, and by e-ter-nal hap-pi-ness 
here-af-ter. 

Lesson XXIII. 
The Bu-ri-al, Re-sur-rec-tion, and As-cen-sion of 

Je-sus Christ, and the Ge-?ie~ral Judgement rf 
Man-kind, 

When Je-sus was dead, they laid his bo-dy in a se- 
pul-cbre. or grave $ and on the third day af-ter his death, 
He raised Him-self from death to Life. He ap-pear-ed 
often to his dis-ci-ples for the space of for-ty days. The 
last time He ap-pear-ed to them was on Mount O-li-vet : 
there af-ter He had spo-ken to them, He lift-ed up His 
hands; and bless-ed them. 

Then He as-cend-ed up to hea-ven in their pre-sence, 
till a cloud took Him out of their sight. Then two an- 
gels in the form of men, cloth-ed in white robes, told them, 
that He should one day come a-gain in like man-ner as 
they had seen Him go up to hea-ven. 

Then it was that Je-sus Christ took pos-ses-sion of His 
king-dom, of which there will be no end. And there He 
sit-eth at the right hand of God the Fa-ther ; not that 
God hath hands, for he is a pure spir-it with-out mat-ter, 
form, or fi gure ; by this is meant, Christ is rais-ed, as 
Man, a-bove all that is in hea-ven ; and to the high-est 
glo ry and dig-ni-ty ; for, as God, He is one and the same 
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There He will con-ti-nue in that state till He come at 
the last day, when an end will be put to this world, to 
judge the living and the dead; those who are now dead, 
we who are now liv-ing, but shall die ; and those who 
will be li-ving at the last day, but al-so will first die ; for 
it is ap-point-ed un-to all men once to die, and then the 
judg-ment. 

For the hour will come, when all that are in the graves 
shall hear the VGice of the Son of God and they shall 
come forth ; they that have done good un-to the re-sur- 
rec-tion of the, life, and they that have done e-vil un-to the 
re-sur-rec-tion of the judgment. 

For God bath ap-point-ed a day, in which He will 
judge the world in jus-tice by that man, the Son of God, 
Je-sus Christ, whom He hath cr-dain-ed, where of He 
hath given as-su-rance to all men, in that He rais-ed 
Him frcm the dead ; and af-ter that the judgment, all 
things will be per-fect-Iy sub-ject-ed to Him, and the 
de-signs of God from all e-ter-ni-ty will be en-tire-ly ac- 
com-plish-ed. 

Lesson XXIV. 

The Es-tab-lish-ment of the Church. 

But. af-ter Je-sus was as-cen-ded in-to Hea-ven, He 
thence sent down, ac-cord-ing to his pro-mise be-fore He 
was put to death, the Pa-ra-clete or Com-fort-er, the 
Di-vine Spi-rit or the Ho-ly Ghost, to en-light-en the 
minds of His A-pos-tles and Dis-ci-ples, that they might 
un-der-stand all that which He, when li-ving with them 
on earth, had taught them, and would then briag to their 
minds. 

Al-so to con-firm them in the faith or be-lief of such truths, 
and to en-ab!e them to teach them, and to preach the 
Gos-pel through-out the whole world ; and more-over to 
con-firm the same by the mi-ra-cles which they should work 
in his name, and by his pow-er. 

This came to pass thus : When the days of Pen te-cost 
were ac-com-plish-ed, the A-pos-tles and Dis-ci-ples of 
Christ were all to-gether in one place ; and sud-den-Iy 
there came* a sound from Hea-ven as of a migh-ty wind 
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sitting; and there ap-pear-ed to them part-ed tongues, 
as it were of fire, and it sat o-ver e-ve-ry one of them ; and 
they were all filled with*the Ho-ly Ghost. Acts ii. 

It was thus Je-sus Christ es-tab-lish-ed his Church. — 
And Glltkey that be liev-ed tvere to ge-ther— they con-tin-u- 
ed dai-ly with one accord in the Temple — And the Lord 
add-ed dai-ly to them such as should be sav-ed. Acts ii. — 
And then was fu!-fill-ed what Je-sus had said, that they 
who be-liev-ed on Him should do still great-er works than 
He him-seif had done. 

With this his Church He pro-mis-ed the same Divine 
Spi-rit shoufcl al-ways a-bide ; and teach and guide her [the 
Church] in all truths un-to the end of the world : in such 
sort that the gates of Hell, or Satan, should ne-ver pre-vaii 
a-gainst her, in-duce her to be-lieve, or to teach the least 
er-ror. 

The truth and fact of this were de-mon-strat-ed be-yond 
all doubt, by the many mi-ra-cles ; and signs and won- 
ders which the i'ol-low-ers of Je-sus did e-ve-ry where 
through his pow-er 5 and in his name ; be- cause to him was 
giv-en all pow-er in hea-ven and on earth, un-to the e-ter> 
nal sal-va-tion of all them that should be-lieve in Him, and 
be-lieve in the Ho-ly Ca-tho-lic Church, which He had 
es-tab-lish-ed. 

In this man-ner, and by the tes-ti-mo-ny which th& 
A-pos-tles and Dis-ci-ples of Je-sus Christ, and the in-nu- 
me-ra-ble Mar-tyrs gave of the truths of the Gos-pel and 
of the Church of Je-sus Christ, by the blood which they 
shed, and by their lives which they vo-lun-ta-ri-ly laid 
down un-der the most cruel torments, God set, as it were, 
his seal to the tes-ti mo-ny, that all which Je-sus had taught 
was true and di-vine. 

And this held, and still holds, and will hold un-to the 
end of the world, the fol-low-ers of Je-sus Christ. Chris- 
tians and Ca-tho-lics. the members of his Church, firm 
and stea-dy in the faith and com mu-ni-on of One, Ho-ly, 
Ca-tho-iic, and A-pos-to-lic Church ; in which Church a- 
lone are to be ob-tain-ed for-give-ness of sins here, and 
here-af-ter a glo-ri-ous re-sur-rec-tion, and e-ver-last-ing, 

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by means of the Ho-ly Sa-cri-fice, Sa-cra-ment ; &c, &c, 
in-sti-tu-ted and or-dain-ed by Christ him-self. 

TABLE IX. 
Words of Three Syllables, accented on the First. 



Ab sti nence 
ab di cate 
ab ro gate 
ab so lute 
ac ci dent 
ac cu rate 
ac tu ate 
ad e quate 
ad jec tive 
ad' 7 ju tant 
ad ju gate 
ad mi ral 
ad vo cate 
af fa b ? e 
af flu ence 
ag gra vate 
al der man 
al pha bet 
al ti tude 
am nes ty 
am pli fy 
an cho ret 
an nu al 
a" nar chy 
an ces tor 
a" ni mate 
a ?5 pa thy 
ap pe tite 
a po logue 
a" que duct 
ar bi trate 
ar chi tect 
ar gu ment 
ar ma ment 
ar ro gant 
as pi rate 



at tri bute 
au di ence 
a" ye nue 
Ba" che lor 
bail a b!e 
bar bar ous 
bar ris ter 
bar ren ness 
bash ful ness 
bat te ry 
bat tie ment 
beau ti ful 
blun der buss 
blun der ing 
blus ter er 
bois ter ous 
book bind er 
bor row er 
bot torn less 
boun ti ful 
bre'' vi ty 
bro..ther ly 
bur gla ry 
but ter fly 
Cal cu late 
ca'Mum ny 
ca" len dar 
can di date 
cap ti vate 
car di nal 
car ti lege 
care ful ly 
car mel ite 
car pen ter 
ca ta logue 
ca" ta ract 



ca" te chism 
ca" tho lie 
ce' ? le brate 
cen tu ry 
chain pi on 
chan eel lor 
cha rac ter 
chy" mi cal 
chy" mis try 
cho ris ter 
cin na mon 
cir cum flex 
cir cum spect 
cla mour ou3 
clas si cal 
clean li ness 
cle" men cy 
cog ni zance 
co gen cy 
co' ; lo ny 
co lo quy 
com bat ant 
com pa ny 
com pe tent 
com pli ment 
com pro mise 
con fer ence 
con fi dence 
con flu ence 
com fort less 
con gru ous 
con quer or 
con se crate 
cor pu lent 
cost li ness 
coun sel lor 



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con so nant 
con sta ble 
con stan cy 
eon sti tute 
con tra band 
con tra ry 
con ver sant 
cor mo rant 
cor po ral 
coun ter pane 
coun ter feit 
coun ter part 
court li ness 
co ' ver in£ 
co" ve tous 
cow ard ice 
co" zen age 
craf ti ness 
ere" du lous 
cri" mi nal 
cri" ti cism 
cri" ti cal 
cro" co dile 
cru eifix 
cru di ty 
crus ti ness 
cry" stal line 
cul ti vate 
cur so ry 
\ cus torn er 
Dan ger ous 
de" calo gue 
de cen cy 
de" dicate ■ 
de" fer ence 
de" li cate 
de" pre cate 
de pu ty 
d,e" ro gate 
de" so late 
de" sti tute 



des per ate 
des po thm 
de" tri ment 
dex ter ous 
di a logue 
di a gram 
di"iigence 
dis ci p!e 
dis I<* cate 
cis pu taat 
dis so lute 

di" vi dend 
do" cu ment 

dog ma tize 

do lor ous 

dow a ger 

dul ci mer 

du pli cate 

Ec stacy 

e du cate 

e go tism 

e lo quent 

em bas sy 

em bry 

em pba sis 

en ter prize 

en vi ous 

e' pi gram 

e' pi logue 

e'qui page 

eu cha rist 

eu lo gy 

ex eel Ience 

ex e crate 

ex er else 

ex i gence 

ex or cism 

ex pie tive 

ex qui site 

Fa bri cate 

fa" bu lous 



fool bh ness 
fop pe ry 
fas ci nate 
fer ti lize 
fer ven cy 
fes ti val 
fir ma ment 
fla ge let 
fla" tu lent 
flow er ed 
flue tu ate 
for fei ture 
for ma list 
for ti tude 
fran gi ble 
frau du lent 
fri" vo leus 
fro" lie some 
ful mi nate 
fur ci ture 
Gal Ian try 
ge" ne rous^ 
ge" nuine 
ger mi nate 
glim mer lag 
glo bu lar 
glos sa ry 
glu ti nous 
gra" ti tude 
gra vi tate 
Ha" bi tude 
bol low ed 
han di \y 
liar bin ger 
bar mo ny 
ha' zard cus 
he" ca tcmb 
he" mis phere 
hep ta gon 
he ro ine 
hex a gon 



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hin der ance 
ho" mi cide 
hu mour ous 
hus ban dry 
liy a c in th 
hy" po crite 
I d\e ness 
ig no ranee 
im mi nent 
im p;e ment 
in di gent 
in fa mous 
in fan try 
in fer ence 
in flu ence 
in no cence 
in sti gate 
in stru ment 
in te gral 
in ter course 
in ter im 
in ter view 
in tri cate 
i ro ny 
Jea" lou sy 
ju bilee 
ju ve nile 
Kil der kin 
kna ve ry 
La" by rinth 
la" tia ist 
lau danum 
lax a tive 
kc tur er 
le" ni tire 
li bel lous 
]i" ber tine 
li bra ry 
li" ne age 
li" tur gy 
Ion gi tude 



lu bri ecus 
lun a tic 
lux u ry 
Ma" gis trate 
mag ne tism 
mag ni tude 
ma! con tent 
ma" lu script 
mar tyr dom 
mar vel lous 
me" cha nism 
men di cant 
me ri ment 
mes sen ger 
me" ta phor 
me" tho dise 
mi cro cosm 
micro scope 
mo" nar cby 
mo" nu ment 
mort ga ger 
mul ti form 
mus cu lar 
mys ti cal 
Nar ra tive 
na" vi gate 
ne" bu lous 
neg li gent 
neigh bour Jy 
nig gard ly 
no" mi nate 
nu me rous 
nun ne ry 
nu tri ment 
nu tri tive 
Ob \o quy 
ob se quie3 
ob so lete 
ob sta cle 
ob vi ous 
oc ci dent 



cc ta gon 
o dor cus 
o" min ous 
or di nance 
or gan ist 
or tho dox 
cut law ry 
o ver sight 
o ver throw 
Pal pa ble 
pal pi tate 
pa"ra graphs 
pa rent age 
pa tri arch 
pa" tron age 
pa" tron ize 
pau ci ty 
pe" dant ry 
pen du lum 
pen ta gon 
per fo rate 
per ma nent 
per qui site 
pc3 ti lence 
phy si cal 
plea san try 
pie" ni tude 
poig Dan cy 
po" ly gon 
por phy ry 
post hu mous 
pre am ble 
pre" ci pice 
pri" mi tive 
prin" ci pie 
pro" mi nent 
pro" phe cy 
pro" se cute 
pros per ous 
pro" ven der 
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pul ver Ise 
pu" Dish ment 
pur ga tive 
pur cbas er 
pur ru lent 
pu tri fy 
py" ra mid 
Qua (Iran gJe 
qua dru ped 
quan ti ty 
quar ter age 
qui e tude 
quin tu pie 
Ita" ven ous 
re" com pense 
rec tan gie 
rec ti tude 
re mi grate 
re tro grade 
re" Ter ecce 
re ' ver end 
rhap so dy 
rhe" to ric 
rheu ma tism 
ru di ments 
ru mi nate 
Sa" era ment 
sa" cri lege 
sane ti ty 
sa" tur nine 
sea" ven ger 

A ban don 
a bate ment 
ab hor eoee 
ab ridg meut 
ab strac ted 
ac compt ant 
ac count ant 
af fron tive 
ag gres sor 



scru pu lous 
scur ri lous 
se" di ment 
sen si tive 
se" pul chre 
ser pen tine 
ser Ti tude 
set tie ment 
sig na lize 
sig na ture 
ske le ton 
so" le cism 
so" fern nize 
so ' ver eign 
spe" cu lum 
sphe" ri cal 
stig ma tize 
stra" ta gem 
sub se quent 
sub stan tive 
sub ter fuge 
sue cu lent 
sup pli ant 
sur ro gate 
sy" co phaot 
sym pa thize 
sym pho ny 
Tan gi ble 
tan ta lize 
tecb ni cal 
te" les cope 

Accented on the 
al lot ment 
ap pa rent 
ap pen dage 
arch au gel 
arch bi shop 
as sem blage 
a strin gent 
a sy lum 
at tach ment 



tern per ance 
ter ma gant 
ti mor ous 
trac ta ble 
trai tor ous 
trea" cher ous 
tre" ffiu lous 
tri" pli eate 
tur bu lent 
tur pi tude 
tym pa ny 
iy^ ran ous 
Ya ga bond 
vas sal age 
ve he mence 
ven di ble 
ve" no mous 
ven tri cal 
ven ture some 
ver sa tile 
ver ti cal 
vin ci ble 
vi" ru lent ■ 
Un du late 
u ni verse 
ur gen cy 
Wick ed aess 
wrong ful ly 
won der ful 
work man ship 
wretchedly . 

Second. 

at ten dance 
ath le" tic 
au then tic 
au turn nal 
Bai co ny 
bal sa" mic 
be numb ed 
be wil der 
bra va do 



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Ca the dral 
chi me ra 
clan des tine 
co er ciVe 
con cen trie 
con June ture 
con sum mate 
con tex ture 
con tin gent 
con vey ance 
De base ment 
de ben ture 
de can ter 
de fen dant 
de lin quent 
de mean our 
de mur rage 
de port ment 
de scrip tive 
de spo" tic 
di lem ma 
dis cern ment 
dis cou" rage 
dis grace ful 
dis gust ful 
dis ho" nour 
dis man tie 
dis plea sure 
dis seni ble 
dis tin guish 
dis tract ed 
dis trust ful 
Ec cen" trie 
ec lip tic 
ef ful gence 
eject ment 
e lope ment 
em bar rass 
em bez zle 
e mer gent 
empha" tic 



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en coun ter 


in dul gence 


en cum ber 


in for mer 


en dorse ment 


in he rent 


en dow ment 


in jus tice 


en fran chise 


in qui ry 


en gage ment 


in struc tive 


en light en 


in ter ment 


en or mous 


in tes tine 


en tice ment 


in tes tate 


en vel op 


in trin sic 


e qua tor 


in vec tive 


es ta" blish 


in ven tor 


T ex che" quer 


La co" nic 


expect ant 


lieu te" nant 


ex pres ave 


Mag ne" tic 


ex tin guish 


ma lig nant 


ex trin sic 


man da mtis 


ex treme \y 


me cha" nic 


Fa na tic 


me men to 


fan tas tic 


mis trust ful 


fo ren sic 


mo.ment ous 


fra ter rial 


mo nas tic 


fre ce" tic 


mu se urn 


Gi gan tio 


Nar ra tor 


gym nas" tic 


noc tur nal 


Hero ic 


Ob du rate 


ho ri zon 


o bei sance 


hor ri" fie 


ob ser vance 


hu mane Iy 


oc cur re nee 


hys te" ric 


of fen sive 


I de a 


op po nent 


igno ble 


op pres sive 


il lus trate 


op pres sor 


im por tance 


Pa ci" fie 


im pos tor 


pa ter nal 


im pru dent 


pa the" tie 


in cul cate 


pel lu cid 


in cum bent 


per sua sive 


in debt ed 


pre ce dent 


in den ture 


pre cep tive 


in dig nant 


pre cur sor 



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pri me val 


re fresb ment 


se ques ter 


pro nos tic 


re gard less 


so nor ous 


pro mul gate 


re hear sal 


spec ta tor 


pro vi so 


re lin quish 


sple ne" tie 


pur su ance 


re luc tance 


stu pen dous 


pur vey or 


re main der 


sub scrib er 


Qua dra" tic 


re mon strate 


sub ver sive 


qua dru pie 


ren counter 


sue cess ful 


quan da ry 


re pug nant 


sy nop sis 


qui es cent 


re sem blance 


Tes ta tor 


Re cord er 


• re sent ment 


trans pa rent 


re cum bent 


re splen dent 


tre men dous 


re dun dant 


Sar cas tic 


tri bu nal 


re fine ment 


scho las tic. 


tri umph ant 


^ 


Accented on the last 


Ab sen tee 


dis pos sess 


o ver come 


ac qui esce 


dis re pute 


o ver flow 


ad ver tise 


do" mi aeer 


o ver look 


am bus cade 


En gineer 


o ver seer 


ap per tain 


en ter tain 


o ver ween 


ap pre bend 


es ca lade 


o ver whelm 


as cer tain 


Ga" zet teer 


Pa" li sade 


Bri" ga dier 


gre" na dier 


per se vere 


ber ga mot 


Im por tune 


pre ex ist 


Can non ade 


in ter cede 


Qua ran tine 


ca" val cade 


in ter fere 


lie ad mit 


ca" va Her 


in ter lave 


re cog nize 


cir cum vest 


in ter pose 


ren dez vous 


com plai sant 


in ter rupt 


re" par tee 


com pre hend 


in tersperse 


re" pre hend 


con de scend 


in ter vene 


re" pri mand 


con tra diet 


in va lid 


TSe" re nade 


coun ter act 


. Ma ga zioe 


su per add 


De" bo nair 


mas que rade 


su per scribe 


dis ap prove 


mis ap ply 


su per sede 


di3 com pose 


mis in form 


su per vise 


dis em bark 


Op por tune 


Trans ma rine 


disengage 


o ver cast 


Vo lun teer 


Examples of 


Words of THREE 


Syllables pronounced as 



two, and accented on the first Syllable. 
Observe that cvm } sion, tion, sound like skun, either 



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in the middle or at the end of Words ; end ce, ci, sci, 

si, and ti, like sh, Therefore, rial, tied, sound like shal ; 

cian, tian like shew; dent, tient, like sheht ; cious 
scious, tious* like shus$ and science, tience, like shence, 
ali in one syllable, 

Ac ti on lus ci ous pre" ci ous 

an ci ent Man si on Quo ti ent 

auc ti on mar ti al Sane ti on 

Cap ti ous men ti on sec ti on 

cau ti on mer si on spe" ci al 

cau ti ous Na ti on spe" ci ous 

con sci ence no ti on sue ti on 

conscious nuptial Tension 

Die ti on O ce an ter ti an 

Fac ti on op ti on trac ti on 

fac ti ous Pac ti on Unc ti on 

frac ti on par ti al Vic ti on 

Gra ci ous pa ti ence ver si on 

June ti on pa ti ent vi" sion 

Lo ti on por ti on 

TABLE X. 

Words of Four Syllables, accented on the FirsU 

Ab so lute ly con tro ver sy e" quit a ble 

ac ces sa ry con tu ma cy ex e era ble 

ac cu ra cy cor" rol la ry ex ra ble 

a" cri mo ny cor ri gi ble ex pli ca ble 

ad mi ral ty ere dit a ble ex qui site \y 

ad ver sa ry cus torn a ry Fi" gu ra tive 

a" la bas ter de'Micacy rla" tu len cy 

al le go ry des pi ca ble fo li a ted 

a" ni ma ted de" *ul to ry for mid da ble 

a" po plex y di v la to ry Ha" bi ta ble 

applicable disputable he" te ro dox 

ar bi tra ry dor mi to ry hos pi ta ble 

au di to ry dro me da ry ig no mi ny 

Ce" li ba cy dy" sen ta ry i" mi ta ble 

ce" re mo ny Ef fi ca cy in tri ca cy 

cha" ri ta ble e" li gi ble in ven to ry 

com mon al ty e"mis sa ry Ju di ca ture 

com pa ra ble e" pi cur ism La pi da ry 

com pe ten cy e" pi lep sy le" gen da ry 






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li" ne a ment 
li" te ra ture 
lu mi na ry 
Ma" gis tra cy 
ma" tri mo ny 
mi" nis te ry 
mi ser a b!e 
mo men ta ry 
mo" nas te ry 
Na" tu ral ist 
na" vi ga ble 
na" yi ga tor 
ne" ces sa ry 
ne cro man cy 
nu ga to ry 
Ob du ra cy 
ob sti na cy 
o" per alive 
o" ra to ry . 
Pa" la ta ble 
par li a ment 
par si mo ny 

Ab bre vi ate 
ab ste mi ous 
ab sur di ty 
ac ce" le rate 
ac ces si ble 
ac ti" vi ty 
j ad mi" nis ter 
ad mis si ble 
a do ra ble 
ad ver si ty 
ad vi sa ble 
af firm a tive 
a gi" 1L ty 
a gree a ble 
a la" cri ty 
al le gi ance 
al le vi ate 
al ter na Wve 



pa" tr i mo ny 
pe"ne tra ble 
per se cu tor 
pi" ti a ble 
plea sur a ble 
prac ti ca ble 
pre" da to ry 
pre fer a ble 
pro 5 ' fit a ble 
pro fli ga cy 
pro" se cu tor 
pro mon to ry 
pur ga to ry 
Ilea son a ble 
re" pu ta ble 

J re" vo ca ble 
Sa" lu ta ry 
sane ti mo ny 
sane tu a ry 
san gui na ry 
sea son a ble 
se can da ry 

Accented o?i the 
am bass sa dor 
a na" \y sis 
an ni hi late 
an ta" go cist 
an ti" ci pate 
an ti" qui ty 
a po" lo gy 
a pos tro phy 
ar ti" cu late 
as pe" rity 
as sas sin ate 
as si" mu late 
as so ci ate 
as tro" no my 
au ri" cular 
au ste" rity 
Ba ro me ter 
be a" ti tude 



se" ere ta ry 
se" den ta ry 
se"mi cir cle 
se" mi na ry 
ser vice a ble 
so" li ta ry 
sta" tu ary 
sub lu na ry 
spi" ri tu al 
Tern po ra ry 
te" nant a ble 
to" ler a ble 
tri" bu ta ry 
Va lu a ble 
va ri a ble 
va ri e gate 
ve" eg ta ble 
ve" ge ta tive 
ve" ne table 
ven ti la tor 
vo lun ta ry 
vul ner a ble 
Second. 

be ne" vo lent 
be nig ni ty 
bo ta" ni cal 
Cala" mity 
ca li" dity 
ca pi" ci tate 
ca pi" tu late 
ce le" bri ty 
cen so ri ous 
certi fi catje 
co a" gu late 
co he ren cy 
co in ci dent 
col la" te ral 
com bus ti ble 
com mu ni ty 
com pa" ti ble 
con ci li ate 



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con den si ty di vi" si ble ex tern po re 

con fe" de rate dox o" lo gy ex te" nu ate 

con for mi ty due ti" li ty ex ter mi nate 

con ge ni al du pli" ci ty ex tra ne ous 

con si" der ate E co" no my ex tre" mi ty 

con so" li date ef fee tu al ex u be rant 

con ta" mi nate ef fe mi nate Fa ci" li tale 

con ti" gu ous e la" bo rate fa ci" li ty 
cor po re al e lee to rate fan tas ti cal 

cor ro" bo rate e lip ti cal fa ta" li ty 

ere du li ty e lu ci date fe li" ci ty 

cri te ri on e man ci pate fer ti" li ty 

De ca" pitate e mer gen cy fes ti" vi ty 
de clar" a tive e mo" lu ment fi de" li ty 

de cli" vi ty em pha" ti cal for. ma'' li ty 

de du ci ble en co mi um for tu i tous 

de fi na ble en or mi ty fra ter ni ty 

de fi" ni tive en thu si asm * fra gi" li \y 
de for mi ty en thu si ast fru ga" li ty 

de lee ta ble e nu me rate Gar ru" li ty 

de li" be rate e pis co pal ge o" me try 

de li" ne ate e qui" va lent gram ma ri an 

de li" ri ous e qui" vo cal gra tu i ty 

de no" mi nate e ra di cate Ha bi" li ment 

de plo ra ble er ro ne ous ha bi" tu ate 

de po" pu late e ter nal ly har mo ni ous 

de pra" vi ty evangelist here" fi cal 

de ter mi nate e va" po ra te bi la" ri ty 

dex te" ri ty e ven tu al his to ri an 

di a" go nal ex ag ge rate his to" ri cal 

di a" me ter ex as pe rate hos ti" li iy 

di rec to ry ex cru ci ate hy dro" pi cal 

dis loy al ty ex e" cu tor hy po" cri sy 

dis pa" ri ty ex em plify hy po" the sis 

dis pen sa ry ex hi" li rate I den" ti cal 

dis qua li fy ex o" ne rate i do" la try 

dis qui e tude ex or bi tant il li" be ral 

dis se" mi nate ex or di um il li" ter ate 

dis si" mi lar ex pa ti ate il lu mi nate 

di ver si fy ex pe di ent il lus tri ous 

di vi ni ty ex pe ri enee im ma" cu late 




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im men si ty 

im mo" de rate 
im mo" des ty 
im mu ni ty 
im mu ta bie 
im pal pa ble 
im pas sa ble 
im pe" ni tent 
im pe" ra tive 
im per ti nent 
im per vi ous 
im pe" tu ous 
im pla" ca ble 
im po" ver ish 
im preg na ble 
im pro" ba ble 
im pro" bi ty 
im pu ni ty 
im pu ta bie 
in ac cu rate 
in ad ver tent 
in cle" men cy 
in ere" di ble 
in ere" du lous 
in da" ci ble 
in ef fa ble 
in e" le gant 
in fal li ble 
in fe ri or 
in fir ma ry 
in fir mi ty 
in ge ni ous 
in ge" nu ous 
in gra ti ate 
in gra" ti tude 
un gre di ent 
in he" rit ance 
in i" qui tous 
in i" qui ty 
a ju ri ous 
n or di nate 



in qui e tude 
in q«rp si tive 
in sa ti ate 
in sen si ble 
in te" gri ty 
in tel li gent 
in ter ro gate 
in ti" mi date 
in tract a ble 
in tu i tive 
- in va" li date 
in ves ti gate 
in ve" te rate 
in vi" si ble 
in vi go rate 
i" ras cible 
i ro" ni cal 
i ra" di ate 
ir re" ve rent 
La bo ri ous 
le ga" li ty 
le gi" ti mate 
Ion ge" vi ty 
lu bri" ei ty 
Ma cbi" ne ry 
ma le" vo lent 
ma lig ni ty 
me cha" ni cal 
me mo ri al 
me ri" di an 
me tho" di cal 
me tro" po lis 
mi ra" cu lous 
mo no" po lize 
mo no" to ny 
mu ni" ci pal 
mu ni" fi cent 
mys te ri ous 
my tbo" lo gy 
Na ti" vi ty 
ne ces si ty 



nu tra" li ty 
non en tity 
nu me" ri cal 
Ob li" ter ate 
ob H" vi on 
ob scu ri ty 
ob se qui ous 
om ni"po tent 
om ni" ver ous 
op pro bri cus 
o ri" gi nal 
or tbo" gra phy 
Pa ro" cbi^al 
par ti" ci pa te 
pe cu li ar 
pe nin su la 
pe nu ri ous 
per am bu late 
per cep ti ble 
per en ni al 
per form a ble 
pe ri" phe ry 
phi lo" lo gy 
phi lo" so phy 
plu ra" li ty 
po li" fi cat 
pos te ri or 
pos te" ri ty 
pre ca ri ous 
pre ci" pi tate 
pre des ti nate 
pre cc cu py 
pre pa" ra tive 
pre pos ter ous 
pre ro" ga tive 
pre ser va tive 
pre va" ri cate 
pro fun dity 
pro ge" ni tor 
pro lix i ty 
pro pen si ty 



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pro pri e tor 
pros pe" ri ty 
pro ver bi al 
Qua ter ni on 
quo ti" di an 
Ita pa" ci ty 
ra pi" di ty 
re cep ta cle 
re ci" pro cal 
re cri' J mi nate 
re frac to ry 
re ga" li ty 
re ge" ne rate 
re luc tan ey 
re mar ka ble 
re mu ne rate 
re pub li can 
res pon si ble 
res to ra tive 
re sus ci tate 
re ta" liate 
re ver ber ate 
rhe to" ri cal 
ri di cu lous 
rus ti" ci ty 
Sa ga" ci ty 

Accented on 
Ad mis si on 
af fee ti on 
af flic ti on 
am bi ti ous 
as per sion 
au da ci ous 
au spi ci ous 
• Ca pri ci ous 
ces sati on 
co er ci on 
col lee ti on 
col lu si on 
com mis si on 
com pa" ni on 



sa lu bri ous 
sa ti" ri cal 
scur ri" li ty 
se cu ri ty 
sep ten ni al 
sig ni" fi cant 
si mi" li tude 
sim p!i ci iy 
sin ce" ri ty 
so lem ni ty 
so li" ci tous 
so li" ci tude 
so li" lo quy 
so phis ti cal 
sub or di nate 
sub ser vi ent 
sub stan ti ate 
sue ces sive ly 
sul phu re ous 
su per flu ous 
su pe ri or 
su per la tive 
su pre ma cy 
sus cep ti ble 
sym bo" li cal 
sy no" ni mous 
the Second, but pr 
com pie ti on 
com pul si on 
con ces si on 
con fes si on 
con tri" ti on 
con ver si on 
con vul si on 
De fi" ci ent 
de flue ti on 
dejec ti on 
de li" ci ous 
de ten ti on 
de vo ti on 
dif fu si on 



Tau to" lo gy 
te me" ri ty 
ter ra que ous 
ter res tri al 
the o" lo gy 
tran qui li ty 
trans pa ren cy 
tri an gu lar 
tri en ni al 
ty ran ni cal 
Vain glo ri ous 
ver na" cu lar 
ver ti" gin ous 
vi cis si tude 
vie to ri ous 
vi va" ci ty 
vo ci" fe rous 
vo lu mi nous 
vo lup tu ous 
U bi" qui ty 
u na" ni mous 
un te" na ble 
ur ba" ni ty 
un for tu nate 
un feign ed ly 
un wil ling ness 
onounced as Three, 
di ges ti on 
dis cus sion 
dis mis si on 
dis tine ti on 
Ef fV'cient 
e jec ti on 
e mis si on 
es sen ti aK 
ex emp ti on 
ex pan si on 
Fal la ci ous 
fa mi" li ar 
fie ti" ti ous 
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Ob nox i ous R-e li" gi ous 

of fi" ci OU3 Sen tea ti ous 

opi" men suf fi" ci ent 

out ra ge cus Ten a ci ous 

Pre cau ti on Ver mi li on 

pro fi" ci ent vi va ci ous 

pro pi" ti cus to ra ci ous 
Werds of Four Syllables, accented on the First 

Ac ci dental de tri men tal le" gis la tor 

dis af feet ed le" gis la ture 

dis in he" rit Ma" le fac tor 

dis res pect ful ma" ni fes to 

E van es cent ma" the" ma tic 

eu ro pe an mis de mea nor 

Ho ri zon tal Or na men tal 

\\y me ne al o ver bur den 

In co her ent Per se ye ranee 

in con sis tent pre" de ces sor 

in ex haust ed pro" cu ra tor 

in stru men tal Re" gu la tor 

in ter ja cent Sa" cer do tal 

in ter lo per sci en tr" fie 

in ter reg num spe" cu la tor 

Le" gis la tive su per car go 
TABLE XL 
Yfords of Five Syllables accented, on the Second, 



im pa tient 
in fee ti ous 
in nox ious 
Lo qua ci ous 
Ma gi" ci an 
ma li ci ous 
mi gra ti on 



a" do les ence 
an te ce dent 
a"' po pie tic 
ap pre ben sive 
arch an ge" lie 
Be a ti" fie 
be 5 ' ne fac tor 
Co ad ju tor 
co a les cence 
co e ter nal 
co ex is tent 
cir cum ja cent 
cli" mac" te ric 
De cli na tor 
de sper a do 



A bo" min a ble 
a po" the ca ry 
au tho ri ta tive 
aux i li a ry 
Ca lum ni a tor 
com -men da to ry 
com men su ra ble 
con so" la to ry 
contem po ra ry 
De bi" li ta ted 
de cla" ma to ry 
de cla" ra to ry 
de fa" ma to ry 
de ge" ne ra cy 
de ro" ga tory 



dis ho" no ra ble 
cis in ter est ed 
Ef fe" mina cy 
elec tu a ry 
e ma" ci a ted 
e pis co pa cy 
e pis to la ry 
ex pla" na to ry 
He re" di ta ry 
he re" ti cal ly 
her me" ti cal ly 
I ma" gi na ble 
i ma" gi na ry 
im pe ne tra ble 
im prac" ti ca ble 



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in as cu ra cy 
in ap pli ca bie 
in cen di a ry 
in com pa ra ble 
in cor ri gi ble 
in dis pu ta ble 
in ex or a ble 
in nu me ra ble 
in se" pa ra ble 
in suffer a ble 
in su per a ble 
in tem pe ra ture 
in to le ra ble 
in ve" te ra cy 
in vo" lun ta ry 
in vul ne ra ble 
ir re" pa ra ble 
ir re" to ca ble 
i ti ne ra ry 
Jas ti" ci a ry 
Ob ser" va to ry 
o rr" gi m\ ly 
Par ti cu lar ize 
pe cu ni a ry 
pre li" mi na ry 
pre pa" ra to ry 
Re me di a ble 
re po" si to ry 
re ci pro cal ly 
re co" ver a ble 

A ca de" mi cal 
a" cri mo ni ous 
ad van ta ge ous 
af fa bi lr" ty 
a" li men ta ry 
al le" go ri cal 
al pha be" ti cal 
am phi the a tre 
an na the ma ti ze 
an ni ver sa ry 



in ex pli ca ble 
in ex tri ca ble 
in fa" tu a ted 
in flam ma to ry 
in ha" bi ta ble 
in hos pi ta ble 
in im" it a ble 
Sub si'' di a ry 
sig ni" fi can cy 
Ver mi" cu la ted 
to ca" ba la ry 
vo lup tu a ry 
Un ac cept a ble 
un al ter a ble 
un an swer a ble 
ua au tho ri zed 
un cha" ri ta ble 
un ci" vi li zed 
un cul ti vat ed 
un dis ci plin ed 
un fa thorn a ble 
un fa vor able 
un go" vern a ble 
un pa" ralel ed 
un par don a ble 
un pro" fit a ble 
un qua" li fied 
un ser vice a ble 
un ut ter a ble 
un war rant able 

Accented on the Third. 
ar chi pe" la go 
ar gu men ta tive 
a ris to" era cy 
a rith me ti cal 
as si du i ty 
as tro no" mi cal 
Gar ti la" gi nous 
ca" to go" ri cal 
cho ro gra" phi cal 
chris ti.a" ni ty 



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chro no lo" gi cal 
cir cum am bi ent 
com pli men ta ry 
con san gui" ni ty 
con ti gu i ty 
eon ti nu i tg 
con tra die to ry 
con tra ri e ty 
con tro ver ti ble 
con tu me li ous 
cor nu co pi a 
ere" di hi" li ty 
cr$* mi na" li ty 
cu ri o" si ty 
Di a Wheal 
dis in ge" no ous 
dis o be di ent 
du o de" ci mo 
Ec cen tin" ei ty 
e co no" mi »al 
e las ti ci ty 
e le men ta ry 
ern We ma" ti ©al 
e pi de mi cal 
e qua bi" li ty 
e qua ni" mi ty 
e qui la" te ral 
a qui li" bri urn 
e" ty mo" lo gy 
ex com mun ni cate 
Flex i bi" li ty 
Ge ne a" lo gy 
ge" ne ra" li ty 
ge" ne ro" si ty 
Hos pi ta" li ty 
by per bo'' li cal 
hy per cri" ti cal 
hy" po cri" ti cal 
hy" po the ti cal 
Ig no mi" ni ous 
il le ga" li ty 



il le gi" ti mate 
im be ci" li ty 
ira ma tu ri ty 
im me mo ri al 
im mo bi" li ty 
im mo ra" li ty 
im mor ta" li ty 
im per cep ti ble 
im por tu ni ty 
im pro pri e ty 
in ac ces si ble 
in ad ver ten cy 
in ar ti" cu late 
in ca pa" ci ty 
in ci vi" Yi ty 
in com mo di ous 
in o^m pa" ti ble 
in con eeiv a ble 
in con gru i ty 
in con si" de rate 
in con so la ble 
in con test a ble 
in con ve ni ence 
in cor po re al 
in cor rup ti ble 
in ere du li ty 
m de fea si ble 
in de ter mi cate 
in dis cri" mi nate 
in dis pen sa ble 
in di vi" du al 
in di vi" si ble 
in ef fee tu al 
in e qua" li ty 
in ex haus ti ble 
in ex pres si ble 
in fe li" ci ty 
ia fer ti" li Xy 
in fi de" li ty 
in ge nu i ty 
in hu ma" ni ty 



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in sig nP' fi cant 
ia sin ce" ri ty 
in sta bi" li ty 
in stan ta ne ous • 
in sup por ta ble 
in sur mount a ble 
in te lee tu al 
in ter me di ate 
in tre pi" di ty 
in u ti" li ty 
in va li" di ty 
h re fra" gi ble 
ir re sist a ble 
ir re proach a ble 
ir re triev a ble 
Li" ber a" li ty 
]on gi tu di nal 
Ma gis te ri al 
mag na ni" mi ty 
ma" nu fac tu rer 
ma" tri mo ni al 
me di o" cri ty 
me" ri to ri ous 
me ta mor pho sis 
me" to pho ri cal 
me" ta phy" si cal 
me tro po" li tan 
mi" nis te ri al 
mis eel la ne ous 
mo" no syl la ble 
mu ci la" gi nous 
mul ti fa ri ous 
mu ta bi" li ty 
my tho lo" gi cal 
Non con for mi ty 
no to ri e ty 
O do ic'^Je rous 
op por tu ni ty 
o ra to" ri cal 
or tho gra" phi cal 
Pa" ne gy ri cal 



pa" ra dox i cal 
pa" ral le" lo gram 
par si mo ni ous 
pa" tri mo ni al 
pe ri o" di cal 
per pen di cu lar 
phi lo so" phi cal 
phra se o" lo gy 
phy si og no my 
plau si bi" li ty 
po" ly syl la ble 
pos si bi" li ty 
pre tei na" tu ral 
pri mo ge ni al 
pri mo ge" ni ture 
priti ci pa" li ty 
pro" ba bi" li ty 
pro" ble ma" ti cal 
pro" di ga" li ty 
pu e ri" li iy 
pu sil la" ni mous 
py ra mi" di cal 
Qua dri la te ral 
quia qua ge si ma 
Re ca pi tu late 
rec ti li" ne al 
re" gu la" ri ty 
re" pre hen si ble 
re" pre sen ta tive 
ri" si bi li ty 
Sa lu ti" fe rous 
sa" tis fac to ry 
se ni o" ri ty 
sen si bi" li ty 
sin gu la" ri ty 
su per pen de rate 
su per e" mi nent 
su per ex eel lent 
su per flu i ty 
sup pe da ne ous 
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Ta ci tur m \y u na ni" mi iy 

tes ti mo ni al un at tain a ble 

the o lo" gi cal ua a void able 

the o re'' ti cal un coi trol a ble 

tri" go no me" try ua de ni a ble 

ty po gra" phi cal un en light en ed 

Vo" la bi" li iy un e qui" vo cal 

Un ac count a ble u ni for mi ty 

un ac cus torn ed un ia ha bit ed 

Accented on the Third, but pronounced as Four. 

Ad Ten ti" tious e" ner va ti on 

am mu ni" ti on e qui noc ti al 

ap pre hen sion ex cla ma ti on .* 

ap pro ba ti on Fa" bri ca ti on 

a" va ri" ci ous fas ci na ti on" 

aug men ta ti on fer men ta ti on 

Be ne die ti en fla gel la ti on 

Cal ci na ti on flue tu a ti on 

cir cum spec ti on In au spi" ci ous 

cir cum stan ti al in suf fi ci ent 

cir cum ven ti on Li 5 ' que fac ti on 

com pre hen si on ma'' chi na ti on 

con de sctn si on Pal li a ti on 

con fi den ti al pe" trj fac ti oa 

con fir ma ti on pro ii den ti al 

con lis ca ti on Re" tri bu ti on 

con fla gra ti on re tro spec ti on 
con sci en ci ous • Sa" cii le gi ous 

con se quen ti al se ques tra ti on 

con su ma ti on sti" mu la ti on 

con tern pla ti on sti" pu la ti on 

De" cla ma ti on su per ci" li cu* 

tie" pri va ti on su per fi" ci al 

de" pre ca ti on su per scrip ti on 

dis pen sa ti en sup pli ca ti on 

dis pro por ti on sup po si" ti on 

Em bro ca ti en Trans n:U ta ti on 
TABLE XII. 
Words of Six Syllables, accented on the Third. 

Ex tra or di na ry in com men su ra ble 

11 le gi" ti ma cy ia de fa ti ga ble 



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in fig fii fi" can cy Re" com mem da to ry 

in stan ta ne ous \y Va le lu di r>a ry 

in ter ro v ga to ry Un in ha bi" ta b!e 

ir re co" ve ra ble un in tel Ji gi ble 

Accented on the Fourth. 

An te di la yi an in fa Ji bi" li ty 

Com pa" ti bi" li ty in fe ri o" ri iy 

Pis ci" pli ca ri an in flex i bi" li ty 

di t1" si bi" li ty m bos pi ta li ty 

Be cle si as ti cal Me di ter ra ne an 

e v iy mo lo" gi cal Pa ci" fi ca to ry 

Fa mi li a ri ty par li a men ta ry 

He" te ro ge" ne ous par ti" cu la" ri ty 

hi er o gly" phi cal pu sil la ni mi ty 

II li be ra" li ty Re spec ta bi'' li ty 

un mu ta bi ,} li ty . Spi" ri tu a li ty 

un pla ca bi" li iy su per in ten den cy * 

im pro ba bi" li ty sus cep ti bi" li ty 

in ere di bi" li ty Tri go no me tri cal 

TABLE XIII. 

Words of Seven Syllables, accented on the Fifth. 

An ti tri ni ta ri ans. in dh so lu bi li ty 

Im ma te ri a li Xy in di vi si bi li ty 

im mea tu ra bi li ty in sa ti a bi li ty 

im pa ri syl la bi cal La ti lu di na ri an 

im pe ne tra bi li ty Pie ci po ten ti a ry 

in com pa ti bi li ty VaJe tu di na ri an 

TABLE XIV. 
Words spelt alike, but ichich in different parts of speech, 
change their pronounciatv.n ; bdng accented on the first 
syllable, when Nguhs ; and the last, when Veils. 

NOUNS. VERBS. 

Accented on the First. Accented on the Last y 

Absent, sot present To Absent, to keep away 

An Abstract, an ahndgerneiit To Abstract, to shorten 
A Collect, a short prayer To Collect, to gather toge- 
ther 
A Compound, a mixture To Compound to mingle 

A Contest, a quarrel To Contest, to dispute 

A Contract a deed To Contract, to bargain 



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NOUNS. 

Accented on the First. 
Converse, conversation 
A Convert** a reformed person 
A Convict, a criminal 
A Convoy, a guard 
A Desert, a wilderness 
An Extract, a quotation 
A Ferment, a turou t 

Frequent, a repetition 
Import^ tendency 

An Ifcsuit, an affront 

An Object, anything pre- 
sented to our senses 

A Present, a gift 

Produce, the thing pro- 
duced 

A Project, a scheme or de- 
sign 

A Rebel, a traitor 

A Record, a public register 

Refuse, waste 

A Subject, he who owes obe- 
dience 

A Torment a great f a : n 

TABLE XV. 

Words of Similar S.und, but different in Spelling and 

Sens?. 

Affect, to move or imitate 



VERBS. 

Accented on the Last, 
To Converse, to discourse- 
To Convert, to change 
To Convict, to prove guiftv 
To Convey, to protect 
To Desert, to forsake 
To Extract, to select 
To Ferment, to work like 

beer. 
To Frequent, to resort to 
To Import, to bring froa^ 

abroad 
To Insult, to i 1-u^e 
To Object, to oppose 

To Present, to give 

To Produce, to bring fortE 

To Projeet, to contrive 

To Rebel, to revolt 
To Record, to enrol! 
To Refusej to deny 
To Subject, to subdue 

To Torment, to torture 



Abel, a mail's name 
Able, sufficient 
Accept, receive 
Except, leave out 
Accidence, in grammar 
Accidents, chances 
Accompt. reckoning 
Account, esteem 
Acts, deeds, exploits 
Axe, an instrument 



Effect, purpose 
Ail, to be ill 
Ale, malt liquor 
Ere, before 
Heir, to an estate 
Alder, a tree 
Elder, a senior 
All, every one 
Awl, a sliarp tool 



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Altar, for a sacrifice 
Alter, to change 
Ant, an insect 
Aunt, an uncle's wife 
Arrant, notorious 
Errand, a message 
Errant, wandering 
Ascent steepness 
Assent; consent 
Assistance, help 
Assistants, helpers 
Attendance, waiting 
Attendants, waiters 
Auger, to bore with 
Augur, a soothsayer 
Bacon, swiaes' flesh 
Baken, by an oven 
Beacon, a mark 
Beckon, with the hand 
Bail, a surety 
Bale, a large parcel 
Bait, a lure 
Bate, to lessen 
Ball, a round substance 
Bawl, to cry out 
Baron, a lord 
Barren, unfruitful 
Barbarra, a woman's name 
Barbary, a country 
Barberry, a tree 
Bare, naked 
Bear, a savage animal 
Baize, a coarse cloth 
Bays, ia architecture 
Base, mean 
Bass, in music 
Be, to exist 
Bee, an insect 
Beach, the sea-shore 
Beech, a tree 
Bean, a plant 



Been, of the verb to be 
Beat, to strike 
Beet, a plant 
Beer, malt liquor 
Bier, a frame for the dead 
BeL an idol 
Bell, to ring- 
Belle, a fine lady 
Berry, a small fruit 
Bury, to inter 
Bile, gall 

Boil, to move by heat. 
Blew, did blow 
Blue, a colour 
Boar, a male swine 
Bore, to make a hole 
Board, a plank 
Bored, did bore 
'Bole, a corn measure, &c. 
Bowl, a large baaa 
Bolt, for a door 
Boult, to shift 
Bomb, a mortar shot 
Boom, of a ship 
Bough, a branch 
Bow, to bend 
Boarder, at a table 
Border, the margin 
Boy, a young lad 
Buoy, an anchor mark 
Buy, to purchase 
By, near 
Brace, a couple 
Braze, to solder 
Breaches, broken places 
Breeches, a garment 
Bread, food made of corn 
Bred, brought up 
Brewing, of ale 
Bruin, a bear's name 
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Bruise, a hurt 
Bruit, at report 
Brute, a beast 
But, a particle 
Butt, a large cask 
Borough, a town 
Burrow, cover for rabbits 
Cain, a man's name 
Canej to walk with 
Calais, in France 
Chalice, a cup 
Call, to name 
Caul, of a wig, &c. 
Cannon, a great gun 
Canon, a rule or law 
Calendar, an almanack 
Calender, to smooth 
Catch, to lay hold of 
Ketch, a small ship 
Ceiling, of a room 
Sealing, setting a seal 
Cell, a small close room 
Sell, to dispose of 
Cellar, a vault 
Seilar, who sells 
Censer, for incense 
Censor, a critic 
Censure, judgment 
Cent, a hundred 
Sent, did send 
Scent, a smell 
Centuary, an herb 
Century, 100 years 
Sentry, a guard 
Cession, resigning 
Session, act of sitting 
Chased, did chase 
Chaste, continent 
Choir, a set of singers 
Quire, 24« sheets of paper 
Choler, wrath 



Collar, for the neck 
Chord, in music 
Cord, a small rope 
Cinque, fire 
Sink, to sink down 
Cite, to summon 
Sight, seeing 
Site, situation 
Citern, an instrument 
Citron a sort of fruit 
Clause, a section 
Claws, talons 
Cleaver, for chopping 
Clever, ingenious 
Climb, to get up 
Clime, climate ' 
Clothes, apparel 
Coarse, not fine 
Course, to race 
Coat, a garment 
Quote, to cite or allege 
Coin, money 
Kine, cows 
Quoit, to play with 
Kite, a bird of prey 
Comet, a blazing star 
Commit, to act 
Coming, approaching 
Cummin, a plant 
Common, public 
Commune, to converse 
Concert, of music 
Consort, a wife 
Condemn, to sentence 
Contemn, to despise 
Confidence, reliance 
Confidants, trusty friends 
Council, an assembly 
Counsel, advice 
Courant, a quick dance 
Current, passable 



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Cousin, a relation 

Cosen, to cheat 

Creak, to make a noise 

Creek, of a sea 

"Crick, a pain ia the neck 

Cruise, to sail about 

Crews, ship's companies 

Cygnet, a young swaa 

Signet, a seal 

Cymbal, an instrument 

Symbol, a mark 

Cypres?, a tree 

Cyprus, an island 

Dane, of Denmark 

Dean, next to the bishop 

Deign , to vouchsafe 

Dear, cosily 

Deer, a forest animal 

Debtor, tint oweth 

Deter, to frighten from 

Decease, death 

Disease, distemper 

Defer, to delay 

Differ, to disagree 
Deference, respect 
Difference, disagreement 
Dependence, relying on 
Dependents, hangers on 
Descent, going down 
Dissent, to disagree 
Device, a stratagem 
Device, to invent 
■Dew, a thin co!d vapour 
Due s owing 
Dire, dreadful 
Dyer, one who dyes cloth 
Doe ? female deer 
Dough, leaven or paste 
Doer, perform 
Door, of a house 
J3oiIar, a Spanish coin 



Dolour, grief 

Done, acted 

Duo, a colour 

Draft, a bill 

Draught, a drink 

Dragon, a serpent 

Dragoon, a soldier 

Ear, of the head 

Ere, before 

Easter, the feast of our 
viour's resurrection 

Esther, a woman's tame 

Emerge, to rise out of 

Im merge, to plunge 

Eminent, noted 

imminent, impending 

Enter, to go in 

Inter,, to bury 

Envoy, ambjssador 

Envy, ill will 

Err, mistake 

Her, die 

Yew, a tree 
Yoq, yourself 
Your, your own 
Ure> custom use 
Ewer, basia 
Exercise, employment 
Exorcise, to conjure 
Extant, ia being 
Extent, dimensions 
Eye, to see with 
I, myself 
Fain, willingly 
Feign, to dissemble 
Faint, languid 
Feint, a pretence 
Fair, beautiful 
Fare, diet, hire 
Favour, kindness 
Fever, distemper 



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Feat, exploit 
Feet, of the body 
File, of steel 
Foil, to overcome 
FiHip, with the finger 
Philip, a man's name 
Fir, a tree 
Fcr, soft hair 
Flea, gn insect 
Fice, to run from danger 
Flew, did fl/ 
Flue^ of a chimney 
Flower, of the fitW 
Flour, fof bread 
Forth 3 onward, foiward 
Fourth, in number 
Foul, nasty, unclean 
Fowl, a bird 

Frances, a womin's name 
Francis, a man's name 
Freeze, to congeal 
Freize, a coarse cloth 
Furs, the plural of fur 
Furz, a prickly bush 
Gallon, fcur quarts 
Galoon, a ribbon 
Ga!e> a strong wind 
Gall, bile 

Gaul, a Frenchman 
Gait, manner of walking 
Gate, an entrance 
Gesture, action 
Jester, a joker 
Gilt, gilded 
Guilt, sin 

Glutinous, sticking 
Gluttonous, greedy 
Grease, soft fat 
Greece, a country 
Grate, a fire place 
Great, large 



Grater, a coarse fi!e 
Greater, larger 
Greaves, leg armour 
Grieves, he laments 
Groan, hard sigh 
Grown, increased 
Great, four pence 
Grot, a cave 
Guess, a think 
Guest, a visitor 
Hail, frozen water 
Hale, hearty 
Hair, of the head 
Hare, an animal 

Hall, a great room 
Haul, to pull 
Hallow, to consecrate 

Hollow, empty 

Harrass, to fatigue 

Arras, hangings 

Harsh, severe 

Hash, minced meat 

Hart* deer 

Heart the seat of life 

Haven, a harbour 

Hearen, God's thrcne 

Heal j to cure 

Heel, of a shoe 

Hear, hearken 

Here, ia this place 

Heard, did hear 

Htrd, of cattle 

Hew, to cut 

Hugh, a man's name 

Hue, colour 

Hie, to hasten 

High, lofty 

Higher, more lofty 
Hire, wages 
Him, that man 
Hymn, a pious song 



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Hole, a cavity 
Whole, not brokt n 
Home, duelling 
Whom, who 
Hoop, for a tub 
Whoop, to haJioo 
Hour, of the day 
Our, belonging to us 
Idle, lazy 
Idol, an image 
Aisle, of a church 
Isle, an Inland 
Imposter, a cheat 
Imposture, deceit 
In, withia 
Inn, a public house 
Incite, to stir up 
Insight, knowledge 
Indite, to compose 
Indict, to impeach 
Ingenious., inventive 
Ingenuous, candid, free 
Innocence, harmless 
Innocents, babes 
Intense, excessive 
Intents, purposes 
Knap, 6a cloth 
Nap, short sleep 
Nape, of the neck 
Knave, a rogue 
Nave, of a wheel 
Knead, to work dough 
Need, did want 
Knew, did know 
New, not born or used 
Knight, a title of honour 
Night, darkness 
Knot, a knob 
Not, denjing 
Lade, to load 
Laid, to p*aee 



Latin, a language 

Latten, brass 

Lattice, a net-work window 

Lettice, a woman's name 

Lettuce, a salad 

Leak, to run out 

Leek, a kind of onion 

Lease, a tennure 

Lea^b, three, a thong 

Lead, metal 

Led. conducted 

Leaper, a jumper 

Leper, one leprous 

Least, smallest 

Lest, for fear that 

Legislator, law-giver 

Legislature, parliament 

Lesson, to make less 

Lesson, in reading 

Lesser, smaller 

Lessor, grantor* of a lease 

Liar, a false story-teller 

Lier, one who rests 

Lyre, a harp 

Limb, leg or arm 

Limn, to paint 

Limber, pliant 

Limner, painter 

Line, length 

Loin, a joint of meat 

Lo I behold 

Low, mean, humble 

Loth, unwilling 

Loath, to nauseate 

Loose, slack 

Lose, not to win 

Made, finished 

Maid, a woman servant 

Man, cbief 

Mane, of a horse 

Mail, armour 






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[ale, he or him 
Manner, custom 
Manor, lordship 
Mare, a female horse 
Major, of a town 
Marsh, watery ground 
Mash, to mince 
Marshal, head general 
Martial, warlike 
Mwten, ahird 
Martin, a man's name 
Mary, a woman's name 
Marry, to wed 
Merry, gay of heart 
Mean, of small value 
Mien, behaviour 
Meat, flesh 
Mete, to measure 
Medal, a coin 
Meddle, to interfere 
Medlar, a fruit 
Meddler, a busy body 
Message, errand 
Messuage, house 
Metal, Gold, silver, &c, 
Mettle, sprightliness 
Mews, for horses 
Muse, to think 
Might, power 
Mite, an insect 
Moan, lamentation 
Mown, cut down 
Moat, a ditch 
Mote, an atom 
Moor, a fen or marsh 
More, in quantity 
Morning, before noon 
Mourning, lamenting 
Muscle, a shell fish 
Muzzle, to lie the mouth 
Muslin, fine linen 



Muzzling, to gag 

Naught, bad 

Nought, nothing 

Nay, an adverb 

Neigh, as a horse 

Neither, of the two 

Nether, lower 

Oar, to row with 

Ore, uncast metal 

Hoar, grey with age 

Of, belonging to 

Off, distant or from 

Oh ! an exclamation 

Owe, indebted 

Pail, for water 

Pale, wan or white 

Pain, torment 

Pane, of glass 

Pair, two 

Pare, to cut or chip 

Palate, to taste or relish 

Palette, used by painters 

Pall, funeral cloth 

Paul, a man's name 

Parcel, a small bundle 

Partial, blessed 

Patience, mildness 

Patients, sick people 

Pause, to stop 

Paws, of a beast 

Peace, quietness 

Peas, pulse 

Peal, in ringing 

Pee), to strip off 

Peer, a nobleman 

Pear, a well-known fruit 

Pier, of a bridge 

Penitence, repentance 
Penitents, repentants 
Peter, a man's name 
Petre, saltpetre 



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Pick, to choice 
Pique, a grudge 
Pillow, a bag of feathers 
Pillar, a round column 
Fiat, luif a quart 
Point, the sharp end 
Pistol, a small gun 
Pistole, a Spanish coin 
Place, to set in order 
Plaice, a kind of fish 
^mi, a fold 
Plate, silver 
Pleas, hw suits 
Please, to sat 
Poesy, pcelry 
Posy, rnot(o on a ling 
Pole, a long stick 
Pollj a head, a vote 
Poor, needy 
Pore, to look closely 
Porce!a : n. china ware 
Purslaih, an herb 
Pour, to btreem 
Power, to command 
Practice, exercise 
Practise, to study 
Praise, commendation 
Prays, entreated 
Pray, to beseech 
'Prey, a booty 
Precedent, an example 
President, a governor 
Principal, a chief 
Principle, first cause 
Profit, gain 
Prophet, a for teller 
Quarry, a stone mine 
Query, a question 
Quaver, a note in music 
Quiver, for arrows 
Quean, a harlot 



Queen, a king's wife 

Race, running 

Raze, demolish 

Radish, a root 

Reddish, inclining to red 

lyain, water 

Reigo, to rule 

Reio, a bridle 

Raise, to lift up 

Rays, beams of light 

Raisin, a dried grape 

Reason,, argument 

Rare, uncommon 

Rear, to erect 

Read, to peruse 

Reed, a small pipe 

Rede, counsel 

Regimen, diet 

Regiment, of soldiers 

Relic, remainder 

Relict, a widow 

Rest, ease 

Wrest, to force 

Rome, a city 
Room, chamber 
Rhyme, verse 
Rime, frost 
Rice, a kind of grain 
Rise, advancement 
Rigger, one who rigs 
Rigour, severity 
Ring, circle 

Wring, to twist 
Right, just, true 
Rite, a ceremony 
Wright, a man's name 
Write to tell by letters 
Rhode, an island 
Road, a highway 
Roe, deer 
Row, ranged in aline 



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Rote, from memory 
Wrote, did write 
BurT, a neckcloth 
Bough, uneven 
Bung, did wring 
Wrung, twisted 
Sail, of a ship 
Sale,, selling 
Sage, wise 
Sedge, a narrow Hag 
Scent, to smell 
Sent, ordered away 
Sense, understanding 
Since, afterwards 
Say, speak 
Sey, a sort of cloth 
Scene, part of a play 
Seen, beheld 
Sea, ocean 
See, to beho'd 
Seal, an impression 
Zeal, ardent affection 
Seam, a joining 
Seem, to pretend 
Seas, the waters 
Sees ; doth see 
Seize, to lay hold of 
Sew, with a needle 
Sue, to intreat 
Shear, to clip 
Sheer, to go off 
Shew, to make appear 
Shce. for the foot 
Shoar, a prop 
Shore, the sea coast 
Sine, a line 
Sign, a token 
Sloe, a wild plumb 
Slough, a rriiry place 
Slow, net speedy 
Sole, bottom of a foot 



Sou', the spirit of man 
Some, part 
Sum, the whole 
Stair, a step 
Stare, to look earnestly 
Steal, to pilfer 
Steel, hardened iron 
Straight, direct 
Strait, narrow 
Succour, help 
Sucker, a youog twig 
Tacks, small nails 
Tax, a tribute 
Tares, among wheat 
Tears, from the eyes 
Team, a set of horses 
Teem- to abound 
Tenor, intent 
Tenure, to hold land 
Than, in. comparison 
Then, that time 
Tie; an article 
Thee, thou 

Their, belonging to them 
There, that place 
Throne, chair of state 
Thrown, hurled 
To, unto 

Toe, part of the foot 
Too, also 
Two, a couple 
Tour, a journey 
Tower, a lofty build ng 
Trea'ise, conventions. 
Treatise, a discourse 
Va?e, a valley 
Veal, calves' fiesb 
Vain< meanly proud 
Vein, a blood vessel 
Valley, a dale 
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Wain, cart or waggon Whey, of milk 

Wane, to decrease Week, seven dajs 

Wait, tarry Weak, faint 

Weight, for scales Whither, to what place 

W 7 are, merchandise Wither, to decay 

Wear, the thing worn While, space of time 

Were, to have been Wile, a trick 

Where, at what place, Vile 5 despicable 

W T ay, road Would, was willing 

W.eigh, to balance Wood, small timber 

WaXj tenacious matter Won, did win 

Vex, to tease One, in number 
Wey, forty bushels 

OF POINTS AND STOPS. 

A comma (which is marked thus ,) is the shortest of all 
stops, and serves to divide short sentences, till you come 
to the full sense. As thus : I am persuaded that neither 
death) nor life, nor angels, nor principalities) nor 
powers, 7\or things present , nor things to come, nor 
heigh', nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able 
to separate us from the love of God } ivhich is in Christ 
Jesus our Lord.— 'Rom. viii., 38, 39. 

A Semicolon ( ; ) serves also to part sentences, and is 
of en used when the sentences are contrary. Thus \ A soft 
answer Utrneth awoy wrath ; but grievous words stir 
up anger.— ~Pro\\ xv, 1, Or thus : 1 desired you to get 
your lesson by heart % but instead of that you have been 
at play, 

A colon ( : ) paits several sentences, every one of which 
has a full meanisg of its own, though, at the same time, it 
leaves us in expectation of something that is to follow. 
For example : He is a wise and prudent boy who minds 
his booh: learning and good education are better than 
riches, 

A Period. (.) is a full stop, and shews the perfect end 
and conclusion of a sentence. As thus : Obey your parents* 
Fiar God. Honour die King. 

Observe. —You are to stop at a comma t i • I you can tell 
one; at a semicolon, till you can tell two; at a colon, 
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A note of Interrogation (?) is always set at the end of a 
question that 13 asked. For example: Who made you? 
How eld are you f What is the matter ? 

A note of Admiration (!) is placed after such words or 
expressions as signify any thing strange or wonderful. Thus: 
Oh !Alas ! Surprising ! Or thus : O the depth, both of 
the ivisdorn and knowledge ! — Rom, xi., 33. 

A Parenthesis ( ) is used to include words in a sentence, 
which may be left out without injury to the sense, As, 
We all (including my brother) went to London. 

The Hyphen (-) is used to separate syllables, and 
the parts of compound words. A?, Watch-ing, Well- 
taught. 

The Apostrophe (') denotes that a letter or more is 
omitted. As, Lov'd thro 9 for loved, though, &c. It is 
also used to mark the possessive case. As, The King's 
Navy, meaning The King his Navy. 

Quotation, or a single or double comma turned, (' or u ) 
is put at the beginning of speeches, or such lines as are 
extracted out of authors, 



PART II. 



Cpapter I. 

Of the end for which man was created. 

Of things necessary for man to know, tie end for 
which he came into the world deserves his first atten- 
tion; becau-.e, being a rational creature, he ought to act 
for a final end, in the enjoyment whereof he may find his 
eternal happiness. Now he cannot act for this end with- 
out a knowledge of it, which, exciting a desire, makes him 
search for and employ the means of obtaining it. A man 
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regards only things present ; things material, and sensible* 
after the maimer of brutes, and in this he is much more 
miserable than they, since they find in these exterior objects 
the felicity they are capable of; but he, instead of finding 
repose, meets with nothing bat disgust, and the source of 
endless misfortune. 

From a want of considering their last end, originates 
all the disorders discernible in the lives of men, because 
forgetting that noble and divine end for which their Cre- 
ator designed them, they are wholly taken up with plea- 
sures of this mortal life, living upon Earth as if made for 
the earth. It would move one to compassion to see a 
child born of royal blood, and destined by his biith, one 
day to wear a crown, yet bred up amongst peasants, and 
ignorant of his extraction, applying himself only to till the 
earth, bounding all his pretensions within the scanty limits 
of earning a miserable livelihood with the sweat of his 
brow, without having the least thought of the high rank for 
which he was born, but it is much more to be deplored 
to see men, who are the children of Heaven, designed by 
the Almighty to reign there eternally, live in an entire for- 
ge {fulness of that end for wlvch they were created, and, 
setting all their' affections upon earthly things, wretchedly 
deprive themselves of that immense happiness which the 
bounty of their CreatSr prepared for them in Heaven. 

For this reason, Theotirne, resolving to exhort you to 
embrace virtue in yosr youth, I propose to you first what 
you are. and for what end you were created, that knowing 
this your end, you may ardently aspire to it, and by early 
endeavours render yourself worthy of it. Recollect your- 
self then, and reflect upon three things, what you are, who 
made you, end for what end. 

* 1. You are a man, that is, a creature endowed with 
understanding and reason, composed of a body, the struc- 
ture whereof is admirable, and of a reasonable soul, made 
in the image of God : in a word you are the most perfect 
of all visible creatures.. 

2. Ycu were e ot made by yourself, for lhat h im- 
possible ; you received from another the being you now 
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from Him who created Heaven and Earth, and who is the 
Author cf all things ? It is He who formed your body in 
your mother's womb, end brought your soul out of nothing 
by his power. You are the wotk of a God, and besides the 
Father you have upon Earth, you have another in Heaven, 
to whom you owe all that you possess. 

3. But why did God make you 1 Be attentive, Theo- 
time : for what end, th'nk you did God place you in this 
worid ? Was it to enjoy the sensual pleasures antl satis- 
factions of this life? To heap up riches? to acquire glory 
and reputation amongst men ? Nothing less ! You have 
a soul too nob'e to be destined for such wretched and 
perishable things : pleasures are changed into pain, riches 
perish, and glory vanishes. Is it to Gcn'inue a long time 
upon earth, to find there jour happiness and to ^look for 
nothing after this life ] If so, there is ro difference betwixt 
yo;j and irrational beings. 

Does not this, £0 noble a soul which God has bestowed 
on you, endowed with understanding, will, acd memory, 
capable of knowing all thing?, cleaiiy manifest that you 
were created for a higher and more honourable end ?— 
Does not this figure of the body you bear, the stature erect, 
the head on high, and eyes raised towards Heaven, teach 
you that you are not made for the Eaith? Beas's are 
made for the Earth ; there they find their Ibppiuess, and 
for that reason they look upon the earth : but you, dear 
Theotime, jou are created for Heaven. This is not the 
place of your abode, as it is that of your origin : your soul 
came down from Heaven, and it ought to return thither. 

But ^hat will you find in heaven that con render you 
happy ? Will it be the sight of the firmament, with ail 
those beauteous stars ? Of the Sun, that admirable instru- 
ment, the work of the Most High, and of all that is won- 
derful and great in heaven 1 No. All- these are not ab'e 
to effect jour felicity : God has esteemed the-m too mean 
for you ; he made them for your service, not to be the 
object and cause of your bappines?. In a word, consider 
all that is in the universe 1 , those vest and wonderful things 



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which God has created ; all which are not able to complete 
your happiness. 

God hath not made you for any of these things. For 
what then ? For nothing less than the possession and en- 
joyment of himself ia heaven. He has not judged the 
fairest of his creatures worthy of you : He has given 
Himself to be the object of your happiness. For this rea- 
son he gave you a sou], formed to his image, capable of 
possessing him, and which by reason of this capacity, is 
never content nor satisfied with the possession and delight of 
this life, as every one finds hy experience. 

You were then not made for creatures, dear Theotime, 
but for the Creator. Your last end is not the enjoyment 
of creatures, but of God himself. You were created to be 
happy by the possession of a God in heaven, and to reign 
with him in a felicity incomprehensible to human under- 
standing. The eye hath not seen, nor the ear heard, 
neither hath it entered into the heart of man what things 
God hath prepared for them that love him. 

And, this for how long 1 For all eternity ; that is, for 
a time which shall never end, but continue as long as God 
himself. This i'3 the most noble end for which you were 
designed, this is the inheritance which your celestial 
Father has prepared for you ; this is that end for which he 
has created you. All this visible world was but destined 
for your pesent use, to help you- in promoting the glory 
of God. 

Chapter IT. 

What it is to be a Christian. 

By the grace of God, Theotime, you are a Christian : 
but do you understand what this is, and what you vre 
hy this quality ; Take notice of it then, and learn to 
know the great favour God bestowed upon you in the day 
of your baptism. By the baptism which you have re- 
ceived, jou'are washed from original sin, by the appli- 
cation of the merits of the blood, of Jesus Christ, deliver- 
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sio, and freed from the power of the Den!. You hare 
been made the child of God, the disciple of Jesus Christ 
your Saviour. You have acquired God for your father; 
Jesus Christ, for your master, your instructor, your exam- 
ple, and for the rule of your life 5 the Holy Church, for 
your mother and guardian; the angels for your protec- 
tors ; the saints for your intercessors. 

You have been made the temple of God, who dwells 1a 
you by grace 5 the heir to his eternal kingdom, from the 
title and hope of which you .were fallen for ever; and you 
are brought tack in the secure way that leads to it, 
being made a member of Jesus Christ and his Church, out 
of which all those who obstinately remain cannot be saved, 
acd therein ycu are now illuminated with the light of 
the faith of Jesus Christ, instructed by his doctrine, 
'nourished by his precious body >nd blood, assisted by his 
grace, and furnished with all the necessary meais for your 
salvation. . 

O God ! how noble and how honourable is toe state 01 
a Christian! What acknowledgments, dear Tbeotime, 
ought you to render to Almighty God, vtho has heaped 
upon jou such immense favors! God was no ways bouriG 
to do thus much for you. Without this favor which God 
has shewn ycu, you could never have been saved 5 for 
there is no salvation without faith. Where then should 
you have been, if God, had aot shown you this mercy ? 
He has not done this favour to thousands of men who 
live in other countries, in the darkness of ignorance and 
sin, nor to maoy other persons, who although they may be 
baptized as you, yet live in error, separated from tue true 
faith of the Catholic Church, which is the pillar and groutd 
of truth. I n 7I 

Why were you not of that unhappy number? VViiy 
.has God made you to be born in a Christian country 
rather than others, and ia the bosom of the Catholic 
Church- wh^re you are instructed in the diviae mysteries 
and things necessary for salvation 1 How have you 
merited his favour] What happiness is it for you, dear 
Theotime, to hive experienced so great a bounty of our 
God. 



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We are happy, O Tsrael, because the things that are 
pleading to God are made known to us. O how fortu- 
nate are we by the grace of God, which has called us 
to the knowledge of his divine mjsteries and adorable 
will ! He has not shown his goodness to all the world ; 
and why has he done it to us rather than others'? O 
dear Theotime, hew is it possible that we should not 
fix our affection upon a God who ba-s IoTed U3 so 
much? 

Learn here from a Christian king, the esteem you 
ought to have for your vocation. St. JLiewis, king of 
Frauce, had such a vdue for the favour of God showed 
to him in making him a christian, that he net only 
preferred it before his kiagdom, as id effect it is infinite- 
ly greater, but having been baptized in the castle of 
Poissy, he would bear that name and be called Lewis 
of Poissy, and thus fcigceTd his letters and despatches, 
esteeming bis title more glorious than that of King of 
France. And St. Augustin, speaking of the Emperor 
Theodosius, says, That he accounted himself more hap- 
py in being a member of the Church than Emperor of 
tbe world. These great men, Theotime, knew how to 
value the grace ot Ch .istianity according to its real 
worth. 

Chapter III. 

That God requires and particularly accepts the services 
of Young Pecple. 

The time of youth being the beginning of life, you 
must know, dear Theotime, the strict obligations you are 
under of consecrating yourself to God when young. The 
first is, that God earnestly desires to be served by you 
in that age, since it is certa'n that in all things, God 
claims particularly the first and the beginnings. For 
this reason in the old law, he commanded the first fruits 
of all things to be offered to him. Of fruits, he required 
the first gathered to be presented; of beasts, the first 
brought forth to be sacrificed 5 and of men, the eldest 
sons to be dedicated to his service in the temple, though 
he permitted them to be afterwards redeemed, shewing 



THIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL BOOK. 91 

by this institution, that notwithstanding all things being 
equally his, yet he had a special claim for thi first, as 
those which, above all things, were due to him, and 
which he required as an acknowledgment. Hence the 
time of youth being, the beginning and first part of our 
life. God demands it particularly, and will hare it offered 
to him, ia order to be faithfully employed in bis service. 

Secondly, the time of youth is most pleasing to God : 
because, generally speaking, according to the -natural 
order of things, it is the most innocent part of life, least 
corrupted by sin : for then the knowledge cf evil is 
not so extensive, neitner is there so much ability or 
opportunity to commit it ; the judgment is not perverted 
by the false maxims of the world, nor the inclinations cor- 
rupted by the infection of the wicked, as in a more advanced 
age, Moreover, our baptismal grace, which we have then 
only lately received, renders that more agreeable to 
God, at least in those who do not forfeit it by a sinful 
life. 

But take notice Theotime, I said that jouih is less cor~ 
rupted, gfnerally speaking, and according to the na^ura* 
order cf things, yet it is but too true, than oftentimes much 
wickedness is found in it; though contrary to the order of 
nature, which has endowed that ?g* with a simplicity of 
mind, and innocence of manners: hence they are so much 
the more guilty, who, by their malice, and depravity, cor- 
rupt the good dispositions which nature has bestowed upon 
it (earning wickedness and runriog after it in an age 
when nature herself teaches nothing but simplicity and in- 
nocence, 

* Thirdly, because youth is the time of affording the most 
opportunities of shewing that you love God sincerely ; for 
it is the time of the first temptations, wherin jou begin to 
be solicited to renounce his lcve and service. 

You are hurried en by your own pasnons, which 
are then the strongest; invited by those of.ycur age, 
who often solicit you to wickedness, eitherf by their 
example, or by their disccurse, and prompted bfl the 



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enemy of your salvation, who uses alibis endeavours to 
withdraw you from the service of God, and make sure of 
you betimes. 

So that this age may properly be called the age of 
combat and trial $ wherein you show your love to God with 
a const-ant and real affection, if you courageously resist 
these assaults. t 

These reasons, Tbeotime, convince us that God has 
a special affection for the homage cf youth, which being- 
employed in flying from sin and serving God, is a sacrifice 
the most agreeable that can be offered to Him. And as a 
learned author says, excellently well, those who in the time 
of youth overcome themselves by courageously resisting all 
temptation? to sia and who consecrate themselves entirely 
to the service of God, make one continual sacrifice of their 
youth to Gcd, which offering cannot but be most agreeable 
to Him, as long as it remains unde filed by sin. O Tbeo- 
time, retain well this truth in your mind, and never forget 
it, 

Chapter IV. 

Remarkable Instances of the Aversion God bears to 
Wicked Young People. 

God has an aversion to all sinners, as he himself has 
said <s I abhor the wicked," especially those who have 
ungratefully abused his love and benevolence. Not 
only reascn but experience evinces it, by the effects 
which God frequently shews of that aversion He has to 
vicious young people. I shall produce two very remark- 
able instances cut of the sacred Scriptures, that no one 
may doubt of them, and that from these one may judge of 
others. 

That first example is of the two children of the high 
priest Heli, called Ophni, and Phinees. These two 
young men were employed by their father in the min- 
istry of the temple and sacrifices, wherein they be- 
haved themselves very ill, committing great irreverences in 
the temple, and crying injustices towards the faithful 
who came to offer their sacrifices to God, requiring from 
them, by an insatiable avarice, more than was 
their just due ; insomuch that the sacred Scripture 



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says, they were the children of Belial, (so it calls those 
whom it would signify to be wicked and abandoned ; 
for Belial signifies, without restraint or fear.) having lost 
the fear of God and the remembrance of their duty: 
moreover it adds that their sin was very enormous in the 
sight of God. 

Their iniquity provoked God so much that He sent 
Samuel to tell their father, who had been too negligent 
in correcting his children, that he would punish hifra with 
such rigour, as should serve for an example to all pos- 
terity ; that he would exclude his family from the high 
priesthood, which he would give to another 5 that his 
offspring would die in the flower of their youth, and few 
should arrive at perfect age ; and that his two sons, 
Ophni and Ph'nees, should both die in one day ; and all 
their race should bear forever the marks of their iniquity, 
which should never be expiated by victims and sacri- 
fices. 

AH this happened as was foretold. A little while after, 
Ophni and Phinees were killed, being defeated by the Phi- 
listines. On the same day, the father, hearing the news of 
their death, fell down backward, broke his skull, and died 
upon the spot. Many other misfortunes happened that 
day ; among the rest f the ark of God was taken by the 
enemy, and the rest of the prophecy was fulfilled to a tittle. 
How many misfortunes in one family through the wicked- 
ness of two sons ! 

The second is Absalom, the third son of David. He 
was proud, dissembling, revengeful, and highly ambitious, 
conceited of himself, and his own beauty, which according 
to the Scriptures, was extraordinary. The first wicked 
action which the Scripture relates of him, but which must 
have needs been preceded by many others, is the murder 
of his brother Amnon. By this action he lost his father's 
favour, and was banished from him for the space of five 
years^ after which he was recalled and admitted to his 
favour again. 

He was scarce returned to his father's court, when lie 
contrived a grand rebellion against him ; and having by 
his address gained the affection of the people he retired to 



94> THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL BOOK. 

a small town^ and was proclaimed King. After Ibis lie 
takes up arm? aganst his father, forces him to fly from 
Jerusalem, and pursues him with a strong army, which he 
had raised to deprive him of his crown. What will the 
Divins Justice do here? Will it connive at such a dege- 
nerate child? 

Hear, Theotime, what the sacred Scripture relates : 
David, seeing himself, brought to such straits by his son, 
was obliged to make head and oppose him. He sets in 
order the few forces he had with him, sends them to fight 
and gives him battle. Absalom's men, thougu far more 
numerous, are* defeated. In this discomfiture, (O the 
divine judgments !) it happens that Absalom, endeavouring 
to save himself by flight, was carried under a great oak, and 
as he wore his locks very long, his liair, by a strange acci- 
dent, and particular permission of God, was so strongly, 
entangled in the branches of the tree that the mule be 
rode on could not carry him away, but continuing its 
course left him hanging by his hair, without being able to 
disengage himself. 

David's soldiers seeing him in this condition, run him 
through with a lance, and killed him on the spot; al- 
though David by an astonishing tenderness, when sending 
them to the battle, had expressly forbidden -any violence to 
be offered his person. O Divine justice ! thou plainly 
shewest that thou dost not connive at the iniquities of 
wicked children ; although thou deferrest for a time the 
chastisement they deserve, to give them leisure to repent. 
Thou afterwards punishest most severely their obstinacy in 
sin, and the affront they offer to thy goodnes?, with which 
thou expectest their repsniance, 

Chapter V, 

That Salva'ion generally depends on the time of Youth. 

I wish,0 Theotime, that you, and all those of your age. 
would thoroughly understand and never forget this truth, 
that salvation almost entirely depends on the life you lead 
during your youth. This is unknown to the greatest 



the'catholic school book 95 

}art of men, but the ignorance of which is the ruin and 
lamnation of many. I wish all youth rightly understood 
that immense eternity of happiness or misery, which waits 
thera after this life, depends upon this first part of our 
time which *all thai world slight, and whicbf/the most part 
employ ia wickedness. To convince you of this truth, I 
shall produce nothing less than the sentiment of the sacred 
Scriptures, that is of the Holy Ghost whose words are so 
express that it is impossible to doubt of it. For why doth 
it in so many places exhort young people to think of their 
salvation Detinues, ani to apply themselves to virtue ia their 
youth except it were to shew of how great importance that 
time is for their salvation ? 

Wlj&t does it say in Ecclesiastics, ' Remember thy 
Creator in the days of thy youth before the time of afflic- 
tion comes ?" From whence comes it that it assures us ia 
the Book of Proverbs, M Instruct a young man according 
to bis way and when he is old he^will not depart from it V 9 
that is the r manner of life of which he has began. Where- 
fore does it say by the prohet Jeremy, that it is good , 
for a msn when he ha^ borne the ycke from his youth ]" 
that is has applied himself to virtue and to bear the pleasing 
yoke of God's commandments. 

Why in Ecclesiasticus are youth so earnestly exhorted 
to virtue, by those excellent words, able to soften the most 
insensible hearts : — Ci My son, from thy youth up receive 
instruction and even to thy grey hairs, thou shalt find 
wisdom. Come to her as one that plougheth and soweth, 
that is with care and labour and wait for her good fruits. 
For in working about her thou shalt labor a little, and 
shall quickly eat of her fruits. How very unpleasant is 
wisdom to the unlearned, and the unwise will not con- 
tinue with her. But with them to whom she is known, 
she continueth even to the sight of God," — vi, 18. All 
the rest of the chapter is but a continued exhortation to 
young people to be virtuous. Wherefore ia ths twenty- 
fifth chapter, does it say, il The things that thou hast not 
gathered in thy youth, how slalt thou find them in tby 
old age?" 



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Lastly, among the books of several Scriptures, why was 
there one expressly made for the instruction of youth, 
which is that of Proverbs? Does not a!I thn manifestly 
discover that the Holy Ghost would give men to under- 
stand, that the time of yonth is a greater consequence 
than the greatest part imagine ; and that all happiness or 
misery of man, whether in this life or in the next, depends 
generally on that time being well or ill employed ; this 
observation being generally true, that those secure their 
salvation who in their: youth are bred tip in the fear of 
God, and cf observance of his commandments ; and that 
those who have not been educated in the fear of God, or 
cast it from them, to follow sin with greater liberty, are 
-unhappily lost. All this truth is grounded on those two 
principles ; the first is, that those who have followe^virtue 
in their youth, easily persevere through the remainder 
of their life ; the second, that on the contrary, those who 
.give themselves over to sin at that time, with difficulty 
amend, and frequently never. 

3 

Chapter VI. 

Remarkable examples of those w\o t having been 
Virtuous in their youth , continued so all their life, 

The first example which I shall produce is that of Jo- 
seph, a model of virtue in his youth, and which I have 
slightly mentioned in the first part. At sixteen years of 
age he abhorred vice ia such a manner that the wicked 
example of his brethren could never corrupt his innocence, 
on the contrary not being able to endure their wickedness ; 
he gave notice thereof to his father, Jacob. The greatness 
of his virtue, for which he was singularly favored by God, 
and tenderly loved by his father, drew upon him the enmity 
of his brethren, who meeting him one day in the fields, con- 
spired to murder him ; but having a horror of dipping their 
hands in his blood, they resolved to let him down into a pit 
with a design of leaving him there to perish. 

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prayers and tears was obliged to j i 1 1 J putting a*l his con- 
fidence in Gcd, who never abandon those who love him. 
In this he was not deceived ; for his inhuman brethren, 
struck with horror af so barbarous a crime, changed their, 
first resolution. They drew him up out of the pit and sold 
him to merchants then passing by, who carried him into 
Egypt, where he was sdld to a lord of* that country. Jo- 
seph being with his master, persevered in virtue and iano- 
cence of life which drew down the blessing of God upon 
the house of his master, who soon discovered bis merit,, and 
conceived a great affection for him. 

Behold how Joseph spent the first part of liis youth, that 
is, until about the age of twenty, See the consequence of 
it, and how ha passed (he rest of his life ; wherein I observe 
three remarkable occasions in which bis virtue underwent 
the severest trial. The first was about that sge when he 
sustained the most violent attack his chasiity could undergo. 
The second was his being cast into prison, having to suffer 
the punishment, and be deemed guilty of a crime he abomi- 
nated. €> 

But Jo>eph continued immoveable in his first virtue : and 
as he had learned patience ia his youth, by the persecution 
of his brethren, he bore this with wonderful constancy, 
comforting himself in the conviction of his innocence, of 
which God was both witness and protestor. God, ^bo had 
always been with him, left him not- on this occasion 5 but, 
as the Sacred Scripture says, descended with him into the 
pit, that he might assist him with his grace and wonderfully 
deliver him, as he did presently after. 

To these two trials succeeded the third, jet greater. — 
This was the elevated station to which be was raised ; for 
having interpreted Pharaoh's dream, by the knowledge God 
gave him of things to come, tlis kiog not only delivered 
him out of prison, but made him the first man in his king- 
dom, over which he gave him a gene-ai charge with 
absolute power to dispose of all things according to bis 
will, commanding his subjects to obey him as himself. — 
In this high station which generally dazzles men's eyes 
and soon destroys an ordinary share of virtue, Joseph 



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remained firm in bis primitive innocence, always like him- 
self. 

Forgetfulness of God, pride, covetousness, and revenge, 
the u^Uil attendants of unlimited power, could never find 
admittance into his breast. Having au opportunity of re- 
ranging himself on his brethren, who came into Egypt to 
buy provisions duging a severe famine, he not only omitted 
it, but received them with such tenderness, and masks of 
affection, as to draw tears from those who read the Scrip- 
ture account of it. He carried himself in this station with 
so niucfi justice, that no complaint was ever made of his 
conduct; on the contrary, the Egyptians proclaimed him 
their deliverer, being freed from want during a seven 
year's famine, by his great prudence, for which he was 
called in those countries, The Saviovrofthc World* 

He persevered thus in virtue and the fear of God, in the 
mll&t of grandeur from the age of thirty, when he was 
raised to that fortune, e?en to the age of a hundred and 
teo, wherein he died. O Theotime, -reflect well upon this 
example, and learn from it what virtue acquired^ youth 
is able to effect, 

The next example I shall adduce is tbe.t of Toby, the 
father of young Toby, whose conduct, as well in youth as 
in a more advanced age, the Scripture declares to be 
worthy of our admiration. He was a yonng man of the 
tribe and city of Napthali ; and, although he was the 
youngest of all his tribe, yet nothing childish or youthful 
appeared in his actions. And when all others went to 
sacrifice to the golden calf of Jeroboam, King of Israel, 
shunning their company, he went alone to Jerusalem, to 
the Temple of the Lord, and there adored the God of 
Israel offering to him faithfully his first fruits and tithes. 
These and such like things did he observe, adds the Scrip- 
ture, when but a boy 5 according to the law of God. 

O the admirable life, Theotime, of a young man who 
acted nothing childish, that is, nothing contrary to virtue ; 
who permitted not himself to be carried away by the tor- 
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God, when the rest, to a man, abandoned their Creator ! 
A youth spent so virtuously could not but be followed by a 
holy life, as you shall see, 

Toby being come to man's estate, was led captive by 
the Assyrians, wirh all his countrymen, to the city of 
Ninive. Beiag there, he departed not from the path of 
virtue which he had so happily entered in his youth. For 
first, as he had learned in his youth to resist the wicked 
examples of others, be permitted not himself to be cor- 
rupted in his captivity by the examples of his countrymen, 
who ate licentiously the meats of Gentiles, though prohi- 
bited by the law of God. Secondly, having deserved a 
particular regard from the Assyrian king, by his virtuous 
conduct, he had leaye to go to any part of the kingdom. 
He visited his fellow captives, admonished them concern- 
ing their salvation and their perseverance in the service 
of God. Thirdly, the affliction of the captives increasing, 
he daily visited and comforted them, distributing what he 
was able to give them, fed the hungry, clothed the mkedj 
and with an unparalleled charity buried all the dead he 
found, notwithstanding the displeasure of the king, which 
he had incurred by that action, even to the danger of his life. 
But what is yet more admirable is the patience with 
which he bore the melancholy affliction of blindness,, which 
befel him by an enexpected accident in the fifty-sixth 
year of his age, One day as he returned home wearied 
wilh the burial of many dead he chanced to fall asleep 
under a wall, from the top whereof the dung out of a 
swallow's cest fell upon his eyes, and took away his sight* 
This was doubtless a very great affliction and a most se- 
rere trial ; but he supported it with such an admirable 
patience, that the sacred Scripture compares it to that 
of Job, and, what is very remarkable, attributes it to that 
piety and fear of God in which he had lived during his 
youth. Behold what it gays 5 Now this trial the Lord 
therefore permitted to happen to him, that an example 
might be given to posterity of his patience, as also of holy 
Job. For wherea3 he had always feared God from his 
infancy, and kept his commandments, he repined cot 
against God because the evil of blindness had befallen 



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km. but conUauecj immovable in the fear of God, giving 
ikMihs to God all the days of Lis life." 

piow admirable is the effect of virtue, which has al- 
ways increased with cgel He was delivered from bis 
lion four years afrer. and living to the age of one 
linn dr*d and ten he died in peace, aftef he had wade, as 
the Scripture observes, a continual progress in the fear and 
semee of 'Gad. Thus, Tbeoti^e, do they live, thus do 
t&ey die, who have followed virtue in youth. 



Chapter VII. 



thoso who had been addict td to vice in their youth 
amend with great difficulty, and often not at all. 

Thcof me. that I had been capable of imprinting this 
important tu h it .ore lastingly in your heart than in brass 
of barbie, and making you perfectly comprehend the great 

readful difficulty of amendment after a youth spent 
la vice. A difficulty so great that it is almost impossible 

ieptly to express it 5 and the other ride so general 
that we cannot consider inattentively without being touched 
^ith a lively sorrow, seeing such riumbers of christians, 
and principally of young people, who groai under the 
tyranny of a vicious habit, which being contracted ia their 
youth, and increased with age, leads them to perditi -n ; 
(com. which, if they chance to recover, it is with incredible 
pains and combits, and by a manifest miracle of divine 
grace* Learn, dear Toeotime, to avoid th's danger, and 
endeavour to conceive its greatness either . that you may 
entirely prevent it, or quickly withdraw yourself if you are 
already engaged therein. 

T&h great difficulty springs from three causes. The 
first is, the incredible power and force of a wicked habit, 
which being once rooted in the soul, cannot be plucked 
np without great pains. All habits have commonly this 
qplity, that they continue a long time, and are with much 
difficulty removed. But amongst others; wicked habits 



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are such as adhere more strong]/, and are.not fo casifj 
changed j because corrupt nature is more prone to eiil 
than good. Hence the Scripture sajs, That the per.?erte 
are bard to be corrected, which makes the number ©f 
that is, of sinners, infinite. But among the kicked 
habits those contracted in ) puth are the strongest at d vritb 
most difficulty overcome ; for the passions which are 
the instruments office, unrestrained at that tune by virtue^ 
increase with age, ard as they increase give "vice 
daily new strength, and render it at last uacon<ruer- 
able . 

For this reason the same Scripture, in crder (o ex- 
press the free cf a vicious habit contracted in yculb, 
delivers a sentence which young people ought to haye 
frequently in I'Sefr mind : a His bones shall be filled wilb 
the vices of h : s ycuih. add they shall sleep with bim m 
the dutt." That is the vices and wicked habits of jouib 
become so deeply rooted in the soul, that all the reminder 
of hfe is tainted with them, and death alone, as we dailjr 
see, can put a final period to them. 

The cause is very evident: for vice, when ence m po&- 
session of a soul, increases and strengthens the passions ; 
the passions corrupt the judgment, so that it mistakes 
good for evil and evii for good ; the judgment being once 
corrupted perverts the will, which runs bl ndly into sb, 
and from thence proceeds all the e*i*, because as St. 
August in says, i( The tfifl not governed turns to an eager 
dedre of sin, and by our gratifying this desire, it is formes! 
into a habit, and a habit not resisted becomes a necessity r 5 
that is, an extreme difficulty in avoiding sin. Hwce, 
when a person is arrived at this pitch ; there are bo 
hopes of his amendment ; because as another author 
Isidore) adds, •• Necessity terminates in death by exposiBg 
hirn who lies under it to final impenitence.' 5 

The second cause of this great difliculcy is, the decrease 
of divine grace, for as God multiplies his favours to tlose 
who receive him with humility, and employ them for their 
sakation, so he diminishes them to those who abuse anil 



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contemn them, Now if he deals thus with mankind in 
genera), much more with youth 5 on whom he bestows many 
favours, as long ss they remain deserving cf them, so he 
withdraws his kindness when they abiue them, as we may 
learn by the experience of those who having been favour- 
ed with particular obligations from God in their youth, 
presently become sensible of a great diminution of those 
favours, occasioned by the ill use they have made of the 
same. 

God himself threatens this by his prophet when he 
speaks thus : In that day the fair virgins and the young 
men shall faint for thirst ; they that swear by the sin of 
Samaria ; that is, who make profession of adoring the idols 
which the city of Samaria adores. The thirst, is not only 
a corporeal but a spiritual thirst, and the want of divine 
grace, of which it is spoken immediately before. I will 
«end forth a famine into the land, not a famine of bread 
nor a thirst of water, but of. hearing the word of tha 
Lord. 

The third cause of the great difficulty of correcting 
the habits contracted in youth is, the power of the devil, 
who gains ground in proportion as our sins increase, and 
the grace of God is diminished. This is the proper effect 
of sin, viz., after depriving a soul of the grace and protec- 
tion of her Creator to subject her to the dominion of the 
devil, and engage her more and more in that unhappy 
slavery, in proportion as she continues in vice. Theo- 
time, who can sufficiently express the deplorable state of a 
soul reduced to that servitude, under the tyranny of her 
mortal enemy, who employs all his engines and devices t& 
destroy her without recovery, but suggesting all tempta- 
tions that are likely to draw her into sin : by furnishing 
her daily with new occasions' for destruction ; by divert- 
ing her from those that might withdraw her from her un- 
happy state by hurrying her from sin to sin, from one 
vice to another, till the measure of her iniquities being 
filled up she is at last abandoned to the Devil by a visible 
effect of Divine wrath. 

Thus does this cruel enemy treat those whom he has 
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rejects those who withdraw themselves from His service^ 
and friendship, and who, refusing to submit themselves to 
the sweetness of his law, and the abundance of his favours 
and blessings, most justly deserve to be abandoned to that 
cruel master, who breathes nothing but their destruction, 
and will never cease to persecute them till he has plunged 
them into eternal damnation. How unhappy are all those 
who have fallen into this deplorable slavery ; yet they are 
still more miserable, who, whilst therein, think not of seek_ 
ins: their deliverance. 

Chapter VIII. 

Examples of tftose who have never corrected the Vices 
oftJidr Youth, 

As in a shipwreck, where a ship is lost ia a storm, there 
are many who perish and very few who save themselves by 
swimming or otherwise, so in the shipwreck of virtue, which 
many surfer in their youth, the number of those who are 
eternally lost is very great, but of those who escape, 
very small. You will conceive the smallness of this num- 
ber, %hen you shall know, Theotime, that in the history of 
[he Old Testament there is found but one example, a thing 
almost incredible, in the person of Manasses, king of Judah. 
For this one, it produces a vast number of others who per- 
ished in the storm, and died ia the vices of their youth ; 
some, after a long life ; others, being snatched away by 
death in the prime of their age. I shall here set jou down 
some examples ; 

First. Of- all the kings of Israel who, to the number of 
nineteen, reigned over the tea tribes of Israel, when the 
division was made of that kingdom from that of the tribe of 
Judah, after the death of Solomon, there was scarce one 
but was extremely wicked from his youth, and continued so 
to his death. And although the Scripture does not make 
express mention of their youth, nevertheless it gives us 
sufficiently to understand that they were all wicked in that 
age, except Jehu, who was afterwards perverted like the 
rest. 

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numter of nineteen, afier Solomon, there were six who were 
good, that is Asa, Josaphat, Ozai?, Jonathan, Ezechias, and 
Josiss ; all the others were wicked. Those, who were good 
began from their youth, and continued :uch all their life ; 
the greater } art ef those who were vicious b gan their wick- 
edness in their younger years, and nevtr altered their con- 
duct. 

Thus it is said of king Ochosiee that he began fo reign 
about twenty-two years of ?ge, that he was wicked and 
attached to the idolatry of the impious Achab king of Israel 
which was taught him by his mother. Athejia, sister of that 
wicked king. He reigned but a year, at the end whereof he 
died m his wickedness. 

It is said of Acliaz that he was twenty years of age when 
he began to reign ; that he did not apply himself to, good 
and to the service of God, but followed the example of the 
idolatrous kings of Israel, zx\& that he far surpased them in 
impiety, wherein he died after he had continued in vice for the 
space of sixteen years'. 

Amon reigned at the age of twenty-two, and became a 
follower of the vices'of his father Manasses, but not of his 
repentance, and died in his sins at the end of two years, mur- 
dered by his own servants. 

Jachin began at the age of twenty-fire, and reigned eleven 
years, during which time he was wicked like his ancestors, 
an J died ia his iniquities, without being lamented by any one, 
and also deprived of the honour of burial, according to the 
threat of the prophet Jeremy. 

His son Joachim, having succeeded at the age of eighteen, 
reigned but thre*e J months, at the end whereof he deserved, 
for his sics to fall into the hands of Nebuchodonosor, and 
was sent into Bab} Ion, where he died a long time afier. 

Sedecias, the last of the kings of Judah, being come to the 
crown at the age of twenty-one, was also wicked like his 
predecessors 5 and having continued in his iniquities for the 
space of eleven jears, he drew upon himeslf 
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rengear.ce, with which Gcd had long threatened the Jew- 
ish nation ; for in the ninth year of h's reign the city 
, of Jerusalem was beseiged by Nebucbodonosor, kisg of 
Babvlon, and after two years siege, it was taken, pil- 
laged, and put to fire and sword, the temple of God ran- 
sacked, and burnt, and whoever had escaped the fury of 
the sword or famine, were sent into captivity. Sedecias 
himself, flying with his children, was taken and brought 
before the proud king, who after Tenting his fury and in« 
dignation, caused his children to be butchered before his 
face, and afterwards pulled cut his eyes and sent him cap- 
tive to Babylon, where he died in misery, in just punish- 
ment of his iniquities. 

To these examples, which are very common in sacred 
Scripture* of such as hare never corrected their vice in 
their youth, and who hare died in their sins, we find but 
one in the Old Testament who was sincerely converted after 
he had lived - wickedly in his youth, viz. Msnasses, and he 
in so extraordinary a manner, that this example shows 
clearer vicious inclinations in youthful years. 

The Priace having lost his father Ezechias, one of the 
most pious kings of Judah, at the age of twelve years 
inherited his crown, but not his virtues : for, soon forget- 
ting the holy example, and wise documents he had received 
from him, he addicted himself to zvtry kind of vice and 
impiety. His iniquities daily increased until the fifteenth 
or, according to others, until the two-and-twentieth yea? 
of his reign, wherein God punished his crimes in an exem* 
plary manner. He was taken by the Assyrians in the 
city of Jerusalem, sent captive into Babylon, loaded with 
irons and chains, and cast into a frightful prison, where 
he suffered e\Qvy degree of misery and persecution.— 
Being reduced to this extremity he began to open his 
eyes, and call upon God in his afflictions, whom he hsd 
forgotten in his prosperity.. He acknowledged bis ioiqi- 
ties,and sued for pardon with truly contrite heart, and, 
by the force cf tears and prayers, obtained from God his 
deliverance; after which lie did pen3nce for Lis sins, and 
lived in holiness all the remainder of his life, even to the 

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age of sixty-seven, when he died. See here, Theotitiie, a 
conversion after a wicked youtl^ but a conversion purchas- 
ed at a dear rate. 

Chapter IX. 

That the Devil uses all his endeavours to lead 
Young People into vice. 

To be convinced cf the importance of dedicating your 
gelf to G~A ia your youth, 3 on must remember that the 
Devil, that sworn enemy to man's salvation, fearing co- 
thing more than to see you virtuous in your ycuih, em- 
ploy* all Lis endeavours to overcome you, and all those cf 
your age, that he may ruin you ; without hope of reco- 
very. 

This tiuth is manifest from all we have (aid before. 
That cursed fiend, who studies nothing but to rob God ? 
a3 much as he can, of the honour clue to him, and men of 
the happiness prepared- for them, knows very well that to 
lead youih into vice is the means of taking fiom God the 
first and greatest acknowledgment which men owe to him. 
In the second place, he knows how injurious to God a 
wicked life in youth is 5 and thirdly, the dreadful conse- 
quence of it, viz., a deep engagement in sin, hardness of 
heart, and impatience of mind. Moreover, he under- 
stands very well, that there is no othefr more certain way 
to fill the earth with iniquities and to damn mankind. — 
This is the reason why he employs all his industry to cor- 
rupt the innocence cf youth, the first sources of salvation^ 
and a!i other blessing?. He knows well that to poison 
the waters of a fountain, it is sufficient to cast venom into 
the spring, which communicates it easily to all the brooks ) 
and that to conquer a realm, the best method 13 to secure 
the frontier places, which give entrance into the heart of 
the country. 

The cursed fiend understands well how to put in prac- 
tice the mischief he taught Pharaoh, to whom be suggested 
the destruction -of all the male infants of the Jsraelkes ; that 
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He exercised daily both the malice and t he cruelty of 
Nebuehodonosor, who, having taken king Sedecia?, with 
his children, at the sacking of Jerusalem, caused the cbil» 
dren's throats to be cut before the father's face, and satis« 
fied himself by putting out the father's eyes' wMk>u{ 
taking away his life. Thus the cruel enemy employs all 
his malice to murder the children by sin, and strives la 
blind interiorly the parents, that, neither seeing nor caiing 
for the loss of their chiidrtn^ they may not deliver them 
from such imminent danger. 

The saine king returning into his country, proud and 
elevated with his victories, carried as the fairest part o! 
his triumph, the young people of the city of Jerusalem 
prisoners before him, as is related by the prophet Jere- 
my, lie left nothing in that debate city more to be 
lamented, than the deplorable loss of the jourg pecple > 
which the sa?ne prophet bewails above all other cala- 
mities. 

Tkis, dear Theotime, tl is detestable fiend, who, as 
the Scripture sajs, is established king ever ail the proud,, 
has no greater reason insolently to triumoh over the hoi? 
church, than by the multitude" cf young people, which he- 
keeps in slavery by sin. And this pious mother counts- 
no loss more deplorable than that of her dear children* 
which the enemy snatches from her in their youth, some - 
by one vice, others by another, but most by the sins of 
in; purity, which is the strongest chain by which be- 
holds them in captivity; thus exercising the rage he has 
conceived against her from her first establishment, bbiI 
continuing the war he has sworn to wage against sli her 
children, according to the revelation made by St. John in 
the Apocalypse. 

This war of the enemy of mankind against yoi'ng 
people is a thitfg so manifest, that the same St. Jr hn- ? 
writing to the fait hfiil, and congratulating every age for 
tha blessings most peculiar to them, expresses a particular 
congratulation to young people, for the victory they ha^e 
ga'.ned over the enemy, as being those -who were most per- 
secuted. 

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have overcome the wicked one. I write to you, young 
men because you are strong and the word of God 
abideth in you and you have overcome the wicked one." 
Happy are all those young people to whom with truth 
we may say, that they have conquered the enemy of 
salvation. I represent unto you here the war he wages 
against those of your age, that we may congratulate you 
in that manner ; and that by the persecution he raised 
against you, you may know first how necessary it is that 
you should be virtuous in your youth, since the Devil 
endeavours so powerfully to corrupt you. Secondly, with 
how much courage you ought to resist the attempts of that 
cruel enemy, who seeks your destruction with so much 
fury ? How is it possible you should not stand in horror 
of that enemy, and dread, more than death, to let your- 
self be overcome by him ? who seeks all ways to destroy 
you for ever. 

CPiPTERX. 

On the knowledge of True Virtue. 

The first means of acquiring virtue is the knowledge of 
it, and the discerniig of solid piety from that which is 
fa'se and imaginary. 

Many ssem to love virtue, who are far from it, be- 
cause they love not virtue, as it is in itself, but as they 
represent it to themselves, every one according to his 
own inelination. Some think themselves virtuous 
when they are not of the number of the wicked. — 
Others place virtue in abstaining from certain vices, 
from which they have a kind of aversion. Though, 
subject to others no less criminal in the sight of God. 
Others esteem themselves lirtuous if they follow 
some religious practices, although on the other side 
they wholly neglect -the interior regulation of their 
conscience too often defiled with mortal sin. AH 
these a r e so much the more to be lamented, as they 
imagine themselves to be in a good way, when they 
are absolutely out of it \ and thinking to arrive by 
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selves at length in the direct road to perdition ; verifying 
in that respect the saving ot Solomon, u There is 
a way which seemeth just to man but the end thereof 
leadeth to death." 

Virtue, Theotiine, does not depend on the cpinioa 
of man": it is the work of God. From Him, then must 
we learn its rule, s ; nce He alose can direct in what man- 
ner He will be served. 

Hearken, then, to what God says of it in the Sacred 
Scripture, and He will teach you how wisdom, that is, 
virtue, consists in fearing God, and fljing absolutely 
from sin, and that He has thus instructed man in his 
creation, (i Then," says Job, that \s > ia the beginning 
of the world. '- God said to man, Behold 4 he fear of the 
Lord, that is wisdom 5 and to depart from evil, that is 
understanding." 

lie teacheih the same thing by the royal prophet, by 
whom He gives you the general rule of virtue. (l Decline 
from evil and do good." 

Wise Solomon ioforms you of the same truth. <; Fear 
God,'* 7 says ha, lt and keep his commandments : in that 
consist the perfection of man, for that he was born, that 
is kis Ias4 end and real hap pines*. 3 

In short, the Sacred Scriptures acknowledges no other 
wisdom of piety than the fear of God, which it calls the 
beginning, the fullness, and the cro^n of wisdom. 
Now this fear is not that which is purely serrile, that 
is, apprehends more the punishment that detests the 
sin 5 but is a lovicg fear of the children of God, which 
makes them hate sin ? because it displeases God, and 
love gocd, because it is agreeable to Him : like the fear 
and respect a good child bears his father, which makes 
them fearful to offend, and diligently seek all means of 
pleasing h ; m. 

So tint, Theo'ime, according to tie maxims of the 
divine school, true virtue consists in the fear of God,, 
which produces a voluntary observance of His com- 
mandments, and causes a fear and detest lion of o r « 
fendmg God above aU things, aud seeks means to 
please Him, and retain His favour. This alone ought 
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ed by this certain and infallible rule, is to be deemed false 
piety. 

Chapter XL 
Of Prayer and Instruction. 

Of all the means of attaining virtue, prayer is the 
Kiosl important. It is not sufficient to desire it ; we 
must search for it with all diligence ; end that we noajr 
successfully seek it, we must' go to tlpe fountain-head, 
and beg it of Him, who is the author of if, and bestows 
en these who beg it as they ought. If any of you want 
wisdom, let bin ask of God, who giveih to ail abundantly,, 
THs is the means which wise Solomon employed, to- 
gether with "that ardent desire of wisdom, whereof we 
have just cow spoken. For in the same place he says 
that after he had considered all the perfection of wisdom 
Le conceived such ardent love for it, that he searches 
en all sides to find it; and that in consideration of the 
innocence of his tender age, which he had hitherto pre- 
served untainted, .God gave him to uaderstand that wis- 
dom to the effect of his grace, which he could not obfaia 
without God's assistance ; whereupon addressing him- 
self to the author of all wisdom he requested it cf him 
with all strength of his heart, in the prayer we shall se & 
down in this chapter. 

Besides this excellent example, the Scripture also* 
furn shes you with that of the wise author of Ecct&ias- 
ticus, who describes thus the means he made use of m 
his youth to acquire virtue ; u When I was jet young, 
before I wandered about, I sought for wisdom cpenly in 
my prayer. I p-ayed for her before the temple, and 
unto the very end I will seek after her. My foot walked 
in the right war. From my youih up I sought after her 
I stretched forth my hands on high, and I bercai'ed my 
ignorance of her. I directed my scul to her, and id 
knowledge I found hi-r. 

Ibis fa the way thsso great men took to acquire wis* 
dom in their early years* The Scriptures proposes it 
to all young people as the method they ought to imitate 
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It behooves you. Theotime, who by the grace of 
God aspire to that wisdom, to imitate them, and fellow 
the way they have thewn. Beg daily of Gcd, with a3! 
the ardour of your affection, this wisdom, which 're- 
moves ignorance, banishes sin, and leads by the path of 
virtue to real felicity ; offering Him from the bottom of 
yeur heait that excellent prayer of Solomon. 

■■ Gcd of my fathers, aid Lord of merey 1 , v*ho hast 
made all things with thy word, give me wisdom that 
sitteth by thy throne, and cast me not off fiom among 
thy children 5 for I em thy servant, and the son of 
thine handmaid, a weak man, snd of short time, and 
falling short cf the understanding of judgment and 
laws, Send her cut of Thy Holy Heaven, and from 
the throne of Thy Majesty, that she may be with me, 
and labor with me, that I may know what is accep- 
table with Thee ; for die knoweth and un^erstaiidetb 
all things, and sha'l lead sre soberly in thy works, and 
shall preserve me by her power. £o shall my works 
be acceptable." 

With this prayer, ©r some such like it, if* you say it 
as you ought, ycu will obtain all that you ark for. But 
remember that it iftfist hctve these three conditions to 
be efficacious : it must be .humble, iferVeiit, aikl perse- 
vering. Humble, acknowledging that you cannot ob- 
tain wisdom or virtue, but from God alone. Fervent,. 
to beg it with a mo^t earnest desire. Persevering, to beg* 
it daily, as there is ro way therein the Diune graca 
is not necessary to preserve cr increase it. 

Besides the m?ans of prayer, instruction is also ne- 
cessary for obtaining virtue. Though core hut God 
can give wisdom, ytt ordinarily lie do*s not bestow 
it but by the ministry cf men, by whom He is pleased 
we should be instructed in the paths cf virtue, inspiring 
by h:s grace our hearts with bis holy truths, at the fame- 
time that men teach us by their words. For this reason 
He has established in his Ghurch pastors end d cl< is, as 
the Apostle says, to ieacb men divine truth*, and e docket 
them in the way of salvati©». 

Now, if instruction be necessary for all men, it is* 
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their age, have little knowledge of the maxims of wis- 
dom, snd are incapable of discovering them without assis- 
tance. 

It is not sufficient, dear Theotime, to beg daily, wisdom 
and virtue from Almighty God : you roust desire and seek 
after instruction and direction in the way to it from them 
T*ho know if. 

This desire of instruction is so necessary for obtaining 
virtue, that it is the beginning thereof, according to that of 
the wise man. f 1 The beginning, 5 ' says he, of her [wisdom]} 
" is the most true desire of discipline." 

And lastly, that you may be fully convinced, read 
attentively this excellent exhortation of Ecclesiasticus ; 
il Son," says the wise man, " if thou will attend to 
me, thou sha!t learn; and if thou wilt apply thy mind, 
thou shalt be wise. If thou wilt incline thine ear> 
thou shalt receive instruction; and if thou love to 
hear, thou shalt be wise. Stand in the multitude of 
ancients that are wise and join thyself from thy heart 
to their wisdom, that thou may est hear exery discourse 
of God, and the sayings of praise may not escape 
thee/ 5 

Now there are many ways by which we may receive 
instruction in virtue, as preaching, and books of piety. 
But that which is most necessary for you at your age, is 
the particular direction of a wise and virtuous person, who 
may teach you the true way of salvation. For Ibis reason 
the wise man adds to the farmer words; " if thou see a 
man of understanding, go to him early in the morning, 
and let thy foot wear the steps of his doors." 

Chapter XII, 
Of Devotion to the Blessed Virgin. 

One of the last means which I assign, but also cne 
of the most effectual, for acquiring virtue in youth, 
is devotion to the Blessed Virgin. It is infallible to such 
who assiduously employ it, because it affords at the same 
time the most powerful intercession in the sight of God 
for obtaining his -favour, and tie most perfect model far 
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Next to God, and ihe most adorable . humanity of 
his son Jesus Christ, it is she whom we mu^t chiefly hon- 
our and love, hy reason of that most sublime and excellent 
dignify of Mother of God, which raises her above all crea- 
tures which God had e?er created. 

Bv her we may receire all the assistance which is 
necessary for us. She is most powerful with God, to 
obtain from him all thst she shall ask of him. She 
i is all goodness in regard of us, by applying to God 
for us. Being Mother of God she cannot deny us 
her intercession when we have recourse to her. Our 
miseries move her, our necessities urge her ; the pray- 
ers wa offer her for our salvatioa, bring to us all that we 
desire ; and St. Bernard is not afraid' to ■ say, "That 
never any person invoked that mother of mercy in his ne- 
cessities, who has not been sensible of the effects of her 
assistance." 

Although the Blessed ¥iCgia extends her goodness ta 
all men, yet we may say she has a particular regard 
for young people, whoso fraiity she knows to be great- 
est, and neceisiiies the most urgent. especial} J for the 
preservation of clnstiy, which is most assaulted in that 
age, and of which she is a siuguhr protectress. His- 
tory is fall of examples of f&U&p, who have preserved 
this great virtue ia their youth, by the assistance of 
the Queen of Virgins : and experience affords daily ex- 
amples of those who have gained great victories, by 
the recourse they have had to her intercession, and wha 
have happily advanced themselves in virtue, under the pro- 
tection and by the grace she obtains of God for them. 

Be therefore devout to the Blessed Virgin, dear 
Theotime ; but let it not be the devotion of many, who 
I think themselves so, in offering some prayer to her more 
I by custom than devotion, and on the other side, ex- 
ceedingly displease her by a life of moral sin, which 
they commit without remorse. What devotion is this, 
to desire to p!ease the mother, and daily crucify the sou? 
trampling his blood under their feet, and contemning his 
grace and favor ? Is not this to be an enemy both to son 
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O dear Theoiime, your de?otion to the Blessed Virgia 
must not be like that : it must be more generous and holy. 
And to speak plainly, if you will be a true child, and a 
sincere servant of the Blessed Virgin, you must be careful 
to perform four things, 

1. Have a great apprehension of displeasing her by 
mortal sin, and of afflicting her motherly heart by dis- 
honouring her Son, and destroying your soul ; and if 
you chance to fall into that misfortune, have recourse 
readily to her, that she may be your intercessor in re- 
conciling you to her Son, whom you have extremely 
provoked. '* She is the refuge of sinners as well as of 
the just, on condition they have recourse to her with a 
true desire of converting themselves/ 5 as St. Bernard 
says. 

2. Love and imitate her virtues, principally her humility 
and chastity. These two virtues, among others, rendered 
her most pleasing to God. She loves them particularly 
in children, and is pleased to assist with her prayers those* 
whom she finds particularly inclined to those virtues accord- 
ing to the same Saint. 

3. Have recourse to her in all your spiritual necessities. 
And, for that end, otTer to her daily, some particular pray- 
ers 5 say your beads, or the little office, some times in the 
week 5 perform something in her honour on every Saturday, 
whether prayer, abstinence or alms ; honour particularly her 
feasts by confession and communion. 

4>. Be mindful to invoke her in temptations, and in the 
dangers you find yourself in of offending God. You cannot 
shew your respect better than by applying yourself to her 
in these urgent necessities, and you can find no succour more 
ready and favorable than hers. It is the counsel of St* 
Bernard. il If the winds of temptations be raised against 
you, if you run upon the rocks of adversity, lift up your 
eyes towards that star, invoke the Blessed Virgin, la 
dangers, in necessities, in doubtful affairs, think upon the 
Blessed Virgin, let her not depart from your mouth, nor 
from your heart ; and that you may obtain the assistance 
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If you perform this, you wil! have a true devotion to 
the Blessed Virgin, .you will be of the number of her 
real children and she will be your mother, under whose 
protection you shall never perish. Remember well that 
excellent sentence of St. Anselm, whfr feared not to 
say, " That as he must unavoidably perish who has no 
affection to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and who forsakes 
her, so it is impossible he should perish who has recourse to 
her, and whom she regards with an eye of mercy." 

I shall conclude with aa excellent example which I 
shall produce for a proof of this truth. St. Bridget 
had a son who followed the profession of a soldier and 
died in the wars. Hearing the news of his death, she 
was much concerned for the salvation of her son. tlead 
ia so dangerous a condition 3 and as die was often favoured 
by God with revelatioDS, of which she has composed a 
book, she was assured of the salvation of her son by two 
subsequent revelations. In the first place the Blessed 
Virgin revealed to her that she had assisted her son with 
particular protection at the hour of death, having 
strengthened him against temptation, and obtained all 
necessary grace for him to make a holy and a happy 
end. In the following, she declared ths cause* of that 
singular assistance she gave her son and said it was the 
recompence of the great and sincere devotion he had testi- 
fied to her during his life; wherein he had loved her with a 
very ardent affection and had endeavoured to please her in 
all things. 

This, Theotime is what real devotion to the Blessed 
Virgin did merit for this young man, snd for many others. 
She will be as powerful in your behalf r if you have a devo- 
tion to her, if you love and honnor the Blessed Virgin in the 
manner we have mentioned. 

Chapter XIII. 

Of devotion to our Angel Guardian and to the 
Sai?ii of one's ?zame. 

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every one cf us an angel for cur guardian, employing, 
by His incomparable goodness His most perfect creatures 
in our service, even those celesrial spirits which are 
created incessantly to contemplate Him end con- 
tinually to serve him in Heaven. O Tfooiime, how great 
is the bounty of God, to depute no less than a prince 
of his court for the conduct of a poor servant, and as St. 
Bernard says, excellently well, "Not to be content to send 
his Son, to us to give ns his holy Spirit, to promise the 
erj ■>y.ment of Himself in HeaVep, but to the end there 
should be nothing in Heaven unemployed for our salvation 
He sends bis angels to contribute thereto their service ; He 
appoints tbtm our guardians, He commands them to be our 
masters and guides. 

Entertain particular leve and honor for him to ¥?hom 
God has intrusted you. He is always near to conduct and 
guard you : he inspires yen with good thoughts ' he assists 
you in important affairs *4ie fortifies you in temptations ; he 
diverts many misfortunes wnicfi otherwise would befall you, 
whether temporal or spiritual. He continues these good of- 
fices in proportion as you have recourse to him.— 
What is it that you owe not to siich a director an3 guar- 
dian ? 

Sf. Bernard says, •- That the being guarded by our good 
angel ouehi to inspire us with three things * respect, love, 
and confidence. Respect for Lis presence, love, or devotion 
for the good will he hss for us, and confidence for the care 
he has for our preservation. 

1. Shew, then, Tbeoiime, a great respect to your 
angel, and when you are tempted to do any wicked action 
call to mind his presence*, and be ashamed to do that before 
him, which you would not dare to commit before a virtuous 
person. 2. Love him tenderly, and recommen'] yourself 
to him daily. Beseech him that he would direct your 
actions, and protect you from the misfortunes of this life* 
and above all from sin, which is the greatest of all evils, 
3. Remember to have recourse to him in a'l your ne- 
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The first is, when you meditate or undertake any im- 
portant affair, wherein you have need of counsel and assist- 
ance. Entreat ycur good angel to conduct you in that 
affair, so that yon undertake it not except it be accord- 
ing to tie. will of God, for hh service and ycur salvation, 
and to assht in bringing it to a happy issue. This means 
is very efficacious to make your affair succeed, It is im- 
possible they should cot prosper under so good a guide, who 
is most faithful, wise, and powerful. 

The second is, when you are assaulted with any temp- 
tation, and in danger of offenuing God, H as often as any 
tribulation or violent temptation assails you, [says St, 
Bernard,] implore ycur guardian, your teacher, your assist- 
ant in tribulation." This remedy, Tbeotime, is very 
powerful in all temptations, especially in those against 
chastity, of which the angels are lovers and particular pro- 
tectors ; as being a virtue which makes men like to them- 
selves, ahd which makes them imitate upon earth their 
most pure acd celestial life. ' " From whence [says St. 
Ambrose] it is no wonder if angels defend chaste souls, who 
lead upon earth a life of angels." 

Next to your good angel honour particularly ycur 
patron. 

The names of Saints are given- us at baptism, that 
they may be our protectors i rcessors with God, 

and that by their prayers, and the examples- of their 
virtues., we may acquit ou selves worthily of the 
obligations of a Christian life, whereof we make pro- 
fession in baptism, " Honour and love him whose 
name you bear. Recommend yourself daily to him. 
But to obtain his assistance remember to imitate his 
virtues/' 

Chapter XIV. 
Of Horning Prayer. 

Morning snd evening prayer, the good employ- 
ment of time, the knowledge of one's self, reading 
good books, and pious conversation, are means so ne- 
cessary to virtue, that respiration and nourishment are 
not more needful for the support of the corporeal Kfe, than 



118 THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL, BOOK. 

these things are necessary for the preservation of piety 
which is the life of the soul, 

I begin with morning prayer, which the wise man,' j 
amongst the means be assigns for obtaining wisdom, re- 
commends earnestly to you. il He will give his heart to 
resort early to the Lord that made him, and he will pray 
in the sight of the Most High. He will open his mouth 
in prayer and will make supplication for his sins." 

I wish this excellent precept were deeply engraven in 
the minds of men, and principally of young persons, as one 
of the most important for living virtuously. If you sin- 
cerely aspire to virtue, dear TheOtime, you will punctually 
follow this instruction, which is one of the most necessary 
you can receive. 

We owe to God all our actions, hut chiefly the first in 
the morning ; it is that which is most agreeable to him ; it 
is by that we consecrate the rest to him ; by it we draw 
down the Divine blessing upon all our works, and collect 
the Divine grace for the whole day: as the Israelites in the 
desert gathered in the morning the manna, which supported 
them all day. 

What is very remarkable in that manna, is, that those 
who failed to gather it in the morning, found it not 
presently after, because it was melted at the rising of 
the sun ; whereof the Scripture gives this excellent 
reason, viz : that God, who showered it down every morning, 
caused it to be dissolved with the first beams of the sun, 
u that it might be known to all that we must prevent the 
sun to bless thee and to adore thee at the dawning of the 
light." 

But remember, Theotime. to perform this action in the 
manner the wise man prescribes ; for he would not have it a 
constrained, negligent, undevout prayer, but a prayer with the 
quite contrary qualities ; he says, The wise man will give 
his heart (that is, will apply his will and affection) to resort 
early to the Lord that made him j that is to say, will 
give his first thoughts to God, to adore Him as his Creator, 
and thank him for all his benefits, and he will pray in the 
sight of the Most High; that is, will consider the great- 






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uess of God, v>ho is present, and to whom he speaks, and 
considering the infinite grandeur of the Divine Majesty, 
will attentively offer bis prajers to him with humility and 
great modesty, and with a profound respect, begging of 
God pardon for his sins, and ardently sighing after his holy 
grace. 

To put in execution these instructions, practise what 
follows. Every morning as scon as you are up, cast 
yourself upon your knees in some retired place, and 
there, 

1. Adore God from your heart, acknowledging Him 
for your sovereign Master and Creator, and looking upon 
Him as one from whom you receive all that you have or 
are. 

2. Gise him thanks for all the benefits you Lave received 
from him ; for the favour of your creation, for your redemp- 
tion by the merits of His Son Jesus Christ, for making you 
a Christian, a child of the Catholic Church, for instructing 
you in the necessary truths of salvation and for other parti- 
cular blessings, 

3. Humbly implore His pardon for all the sins of your 
past life } by which you have so much offended His bounty, 
and abused his favours. 

4. Beg of Him the grace to employ that day in 
His service without offending bim ; make a firm resolution 
not to consent to a mortal an; purpose to avoid the 
occasions, and endeavor to foresee those which may 
happen that day to the end that you may be armed again st 
them. 

P 5. Offer all actions of the day to Him, beseeching 
Him that he wou ? d bless them, iaspire you, and direct you 
in all your works, that you do nothing against His com- 
mandments ; nothing but through Him, that is, by His 
grace ; and nothing but for Him, that is, for His glory. 

6. Recommend yourself to the Blessed Virgin, to your 
good angel, and to your patron. Perform all this in a 
small time, but with much fervour ; and be assured, 
Theotirue, that if you be diligent in this exercise, you 
will find the truth of that saying of wisdom itself; 



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" They, that in the morning earl/ watch for me, thall n\d 
me." * 

Chapter XY. 

Of Evening Prayer. 

If it be a -business of importance, to begin the day well, 
it is of no le«s to finish it in the same mariner, In the old 
law, God had not only commanded a sacrifice for every 
morning, but also for every evening : to teach us that we 
ought to adore Him in the beginning of the day, so we owe 
Him our acknowledgment at the end of it. 

The principal part of this action u the examine of 
conscience, which is a thing wherein you ought cot to 
fail, if you seriously desire to advance in virtue. 1 . . It 
is a powerful means to cure ill habits, to avoid relaps- 
ing into sin, or readily to clear one's self of them. 2. It 
helps to discover the faults one has committed, in bidder to 
amend and avoid them, to continue a hatred of mortal sin, 
and a will not to commit it any more. 3. Without the 
exereke, we fall into many offences, which, baing neglected, 
leads us into mortal sn,(we are lulled asleep when in sin ) 
without a desire or thought of freeing ourselves. 4. By 
this exercise, ordinary confessions are made more easy and 
frequent $ we amend our lives ; we prevent an unprovided 
death : we prepare ourselves for judgment by judging our 
selves. And it is in this condition that we excellently prac- 
tice that admirable advice of the wise man : <k Before judg- 
ment, examine thyself, and thou tliall find mercy m the sight 
of God/ 5 

Be careful, then, Theotime, to perform daily, this impor- 
tant exercise in the following manner. At night, being 
upon your knees, before you go to bed,— 1, Adore God 
and give Him thanks for ail his favours, particularly for 
preserving you that day from misfortunes, which might 
have befallen you. 

2. Beg of Him grace to discover the sins you have com- 
mitted that day, ia order to ask pardon for them and amend 
your life. 

3. Examine your conscience concerning the sins 
to which you are most subject. For this effect, call 



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to mind your chief actions from morning to night, and 
take notice of the faults you have committed. Recollect 
whether you bare had any temptations that day, examine 
how you behaved, whether you have readily resisted them, 
or with negligence. Take notice what company you have 
been in, and whether you have done anything indecently, 
either by ginog ill example in word or deed, either in your- 
self or others ; for example either through persuasion, fear 
of displeasing, or being despised, or in a word by not pre- 
venting the sin of another when in your power. Consider 
whether you have well employed your time all that day, or 
unprofitable lost it ; and so of the rest. 

4. After discovering the sins you have committed, 
stir up in yourself a sorrow for them, humbly beg par- 
don of God, make a resolution to amend the day fol- 
lowiog and remember to confess them the first opportu- 
nity. 

If unhappily amongst these sins there should be any that 
are mortal, rise not up from your prayers till you have 
amply deplored your misery, and conceived an extreme re« 
gret for having so grievously offended so holy and adorable 
a God. Beg of Him pardon with all the contrition of your 
heart, and protest that you will confess it as soon as possw 
ble. Beg of Him that you may not die in that wretched 
state. Alas ! dear Theotime, is it possible a soul can sleep 
without fear, and dread, whilst under the weight of mortal 
sin? If you have no such dread, you ought to 
look upon such an insensibility with horror, as a 
snare by which the Devil endeavours to ruin you for ever. 

5. Recommend to God your soul and body, beg of Him 
that be will preserve you from all misfortune that night, and 
principally from sn. Offer your prayers to the Blessed 
Virgin, your angel guardian, your patron, and the saints to- 
gether. And, as in the beginning of the day, you begged 
of God the grace to lire well, so at the end remember to 
beg of Him the grace to die well. The end we make of 
every day, is emblematical of the end we shall one day 
make of our lives. Finish therefore, every day, as you; 
would one day finbh your life. 

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Chapter XVI, 
Of the fear of God. 

The first virtue that is necessary for you, Theotime, 
is the fear of God ,• it is that which, next to faith, is the 
basis and groundwork of all others. The Scripture calls 
it a the beginning of wisdom ; " and it teacheth us that 
it is the fir^t thing that ought to be inspired into young 
souls. For this reason, Solomon, instructing youth ia 
his Proverbs, begins his instruction with this excellent pre- 
cept, so often repeated in Scripture, " The fear of the Lord 
is the beginning of wisdom." And the same Scripture, in 
the history of the Holy Tobias, observes expressly, that hav- 
ing a child, from Lis infancy he taught him to fear God, and 
to abstain from all sin. 

By this fear, we must not understand a gross and servile 
fear, that stands in awe of nothing but the punishment 
which it apprehends, more than the offence 5 but a respectful 
fear, by which, considering the greatness and Majesty of 
his sanctity, God, his power, bis justice, we conceive a pro- 
found respect, and apprehend above all things to fall, by 
mortal sin, into the displeasure of a God so great, so holy, 
so powerful, so just. 

This Theotime, is the fear of God, which is the begin- 
ning of wisdom and the foundation of true piety. It is 
this to which I exhort you here, and which you chiefly 
should aim to acquire, 1. Beg it daily of God, who is the 
author of it ; say to him frequently from the bottom of your 
heart, " Pierce thou my flesh wilh thy fear, for I am 
afraid of thy judgments." 2. Conceive an awful respect 
for the Majesty of God. < He is the Sovereign Lord 
of all things, infinite in His perfections, in majesty, in 
wisdom, in goodness, in power, in justice. All creatures 
adore him ; the angels themselves tremble at the sight 
of His immensity. All that is great in the world, is 
but an atom in his sight ; and as he has created all things 
by one word, so He could destroy them all in a mo- 
ment. There is none like to thee, O Lord: Thou art 
great, mi great is thy name in might, who shall not fear 






THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL BOOK. 12& 

Thee, O Kiog of Nations ! Fear above all things to dis- 
please God : and let that be the first and principal thing 
you regard in all your actions, whether God be not therein 
offended. 3. When you sp£ak of God, never speak of 
Him but with profound respect; and endeavor to cause by 
your example, that he never be spoken of otherwise in your 
presence. 

Chapter XViL 

Of the Love of God. 

If the greatness of God obliges us to fear and honour 
Him with profound respect, His goodness engages us as- 
much to love Him. We must fear God by reason of Hir 
greatness, which renders Him infinitely adorable ; and we 
must love Him because of His goodness, which makes Him 
infinitely amiable. We must not separate these two virtues, 
fear and love. The fear of God is the beginning of 
His love, and love is the perfection of fear. He that is 
without fear, cannot be justified. He that is, loveth net, 
abideth in death. 

We must then love God, dear Theotime, for how can it 
be that you should not love goodness itself, and Him 
who hath loved you first ? But you must Jove him betimes, 
and from your tender years: you must begin that early, . 
which ycu must do all ycur life, and during all eternity.. 
The love of our God is our last end. God has placed you 
in this world for no other end than to love Him ; and tbat 
coming to know Him for your Creator, you should render 
that which a work owes to its workman, a creature to i£s 
Creator, a child to its fa'her, that is love. And to induce 
ycu the better, thereunto, He has added all imaginable £&> 
tots, having designed you for the enjoyment of his king- 
dom in Heaven, redeemed you when you were lost, and 
redeemed you by the death of His only Son, called you to- 
the grace of Christianity, en ! igbtened you with faith, sr fc<;ts- 
fied you by His grace, received you often into His mercy,, 
and replaced you an ong His children, after you had grier- 
ously offended Him j and a thousand other blessings has He 



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iestowed upon you. Theotime, how is it possible not to 
tere God, who has loved you so much ? 

There are two things in God for which he ought to be 
%gio¥ed. The one is, His goodness, which He manifests 
mkio as by all the favours and blessings which He bestows 
w$m us. The other is the goodness He possesses in Him- 
self, which makes Him transcendantly amiable. For, if 
3?£ might suppose a thing impossible, viz., lhat God had 
saever showed us any favor, ye\ He deserves to be infinitely 

Loved, by reason of the sovereign goodness and infinite 
ferfeciions He enjoys in Himself, which render Him 
saHmtely amiable. When I say we mu*t love God, I 
^conclude a twofold love : the first is, for the benefits He 
Jtas bestowed upon us ; the second in consideration of His 
aafinite goodness, which renders Him so lovely, that in the 
3<Mre of His goodness consists the eternal happiness of both 
.men and angels. 

But take notice Theotime, that the love of God, to be 
real, ought to have one very particular condition, which 
recurs not in any other love ; for it does not suffice to 
love €4od as we love creatures, but we mu^t love Him 
above all things, that is, more than all creatures. Thou 
•skalt love the Lord thy God, with thy whole heart ; that is 
^nrrore than all other things; so that you love nothing above 
-££&&, as there is nothing greater or more amiable than he; not 
^aything equal to Hira,as there is nothing which can equal Him, 

In a word, the love of God consists in preferring God 
above all things, before the goods of the world, pleasures, 
honours, and life itself; so that you must be prepared never 
*to -lore these things to the prejudice of the love you owe 
$& God ; and be resolved rather to lose them a thousand 
times than be wanting in the obed ence you are obliged to 
render unto Him. It is in this preference of God above 
..all things, the essential point of the love of God consist; a 
preference, without which it is impossible to love God, or 
to be in the state of salvation. 

You must then labour early to acquire this so amiable 
love, and this so necessary a preference, to engrave it 
deep in your heart ; and to the end you be not deceived 
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real, see the principal acts you must practice thereie ly 
which you may know whether you love God truly or »ot*. 
I. Above all things fear and hare a horror of sm &»► 
cause it is displeasing lo God, and infinitely opposite tt> 
his goodness, and be resolved never to commit a siq v$vw 
any account whatsoever. 2. Fly venial sins as mueb as 
possible, because they displease God ; and although thej? 
destroy not His love, yet they diminish and weaken i% 
and dispose you to fall into mortal sin. 3, Labour to* 
acquire the virtue so necessary for you, end which He 
requires of you. It is the property of love, to desire to* 
please him wbom one loves. If you loye God, Se&t 
Theotime. you will be careful not only to preserve y©^- 
self in his holy grace, by avoiding sin, but you will en- 
deavour to acquire those virtues >cukoow will make jfMfe 
most acceptable to Him. 4. Often in your heart an*! 
with your lips, form acts of the love of God ; wish oft*^ 
that God be served end loved as be deserves. Be trcm?~ 
bled when you see him offended ; hinder it as much as* 
you can; and endtavour by your words and example tm 
move others to love him. 5. Begia from youth to /ow- 
Him whom you must never cease to love. Atwhattim^ 
soever you begia to love Him, it will be always too fair 
and you will always have reason to express that grief 
which St. Angustin did : " I have lovtd Thee too iat©^ 
ancient Beauty ! 1 have loved Thee too late, O eter- 
nal Goodness !" Beg of him frequently the grace to love 
him as you ought, and daily say to Him from yon? heasf^ 
those excellent words of David : O God, what have I m 
Heaven ? and, besides Thee, what do I desire wptm 
earth? Thou art the God of my heart, and the God tbs& 
is my portioD for ever. 

Chapter XVIII. 

Of the love of Parents* « 

He that feareth the Lord, says the wise man, feo^or- 
eth his parent s, and will serve them as his masters 



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that brought him into the tororld. Yes, Tbeotime, if 
you have the fear of God in your heart, you will ho- 
nour your parents, and all these to whom He has given 
authority over you, because it is His will and command. 
Honour thy father and thy mother ; and if you hon- 
our them not, ycu have neither the fear nor the love of God. 
For to contemn a duty, which nature herself dictates, 
and which God has so strictly commanded, is not to have 
die fear of God. There is no menace which He bas not 
denounced against those children, who are wanting in this 
duty. He says he that afflicted bis father, and chaseth 
away his mother, is infamous and unhappy. He that curseth 
Ms father and mother, bis lamp shall be put out in the 
snidst cf darkness. The eye that mocketh at his father, 
and that despiseth the labour of bis mother in bearing bim, 
let the ravens cf the brooks pick it out, and the young 
oagles eat it. Of what evil fame is he that forsaketh his 
father ! at,d be is cursed of God that angereth his mother. 
I wish these menaces were deeply engraved on the minds of 
all children, who forget ever so Jittle their duty towards 
their parents. 

Render then to your parents, Tbeotime, the honour you 
owe them, considering: 1. That it is just and reasonable. 
2. That God will have it so 5 God, I say, whose will ought 
to be the rule of our actions, and whose command is the 
most powerful motive to a generous soul. The honour jou 
ought to give to your parents, includes four principal things 
which yoa owe to them, viz., respect, love, obedience, and 
assistance. 

1. Bear them great respect, considering them as those 
from whom, next to God, you have received your being* 
Never despise them upon any consideration whatever : 
either interiorly, by any thought of contempt, or exteriorly 
iy anv words or disrespectful behaviour. Receive with 
good will their instructions, admonitions and reprimands. 
My son, says the wise man, hear the instruction of thy 
father, and forsake not the law of thy mother. A fool 
laugheth at the instruction of bis father : but he that re- 
g&rdeth reproofs shall become prudent. 



THB CATHOLIC SCHOOL BOOK. 12T 

2. Entertain an affectionate lore for them. Remem- 
ber sajs the wise man that thou badst not been born but 
through them ; and make a return to them. Now this 
can oDly be done by loving them. Yet, take notice, that 
this love must not cnly be a natural and sensible love ; 
it must also be a rational love, and according to God. To 
love them according to God, jou must love them because 
God commands it; and as he commands it, that is in such 
a manner that you love principally their spiritual good and 
salvation : and endeavour to procure it by your prayers, 
and all other means which lie in your power. 

3. Show a ready obedience to them, as holding the 
place of God: yet only as St. Paul advises, in the Lord, 
because such is his will ; for it is God who commands you 
to obey them ; and when you obey them, you obey God 
as, on the contrary, not obeying them, you disobey God, 
except they command any thing against the honor of God, 
or your good ; for in those two cases, you owe them no 
obedience. Nevertheless you must be very discreet on such 
an occasion, and procure the best advice, that you may not 
be deceived. 

4. You must assist them iu their necessity, in sick- 
ness, poverty, old age, and generally i n all their temporal 
and spiritual necessities. To forsake them on such oc- 
casion, is a very great crime, which cries to Gcd for 
vengeance. 

Chapter XIX. 

Of other Persons whom Youth ought to Honour. 

Next to ytfur parents, there are other persons you ought 
particularly to honour. 

1. You must honor those who represent them, your 
tutors, and those who have a charge of your person ; your 
elder brothers and sisters, for to them there is a respect 
due. 

2. Your masters, whether private or public, from 
whom you receive instruction in virtue and learning.— 
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represent your parents, and as the benefits you receive 
jfiom them, such as virtue aod knowledge (the orna- 
ment of the mind,) far surpass all worldly riches. And as 
you owe to your parents respect, lore, obedience, and assis- 
tance ; you also owe to your masters, respect, love, obedi- 
ence, and gratitude. 

3. You owe a special honor to your spiritual mas- 
ters such as your pastors, and all those who instruct you 
in the way of salvation, and chiefly your Ghostly Father. — 
Respect him much, regarding him as an officer of God, 
love him as the minister of your salvation; obey him, and 
follow his advice, in which youDg people are often very 
defective. 

4«. Honour all the persons that are venerable ; either 
for dignity as priests, whom the Scripture commands you 
to honour ; or for tbeir age, as old men, to whom young 
people should show rr.uch respect ; or for their virtue (for 
if you honour God, you will aUo honour, them that serve 
him) ; and lastly, men in public authority, whom God com- 
mands you to honour, as representing his place, and whom 
He has estab'uhed for his ministers in the temporal govern- 
ment of mankind* 

Chapter XX. 
- Of Swearing and Lying 

To be addicted to swearing is a very vicious quality, 
especially in young people. I speak not of oaths appointed 
by religion to ascertain a truth, when sufficient necessity 
requires it, a necessity which seldom happens to young 
people; but of those oaths so common among Christians 
where the adorable name of God is called upon and taken 
in vain, in the least aoger or impatience, and sometimes of 
swearing deliberately, from a dettstable custom, by the 
name of God on all occasions. 

This sin is one of the most fatal habits a man can 
contract; For, 1st. It is a contempt of God. to res- 
pect so little his holy name, which all creatures adore, 
and whose sanctity makes all the angels to tremble ; 
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H Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord tby God 
in vain." 2. It is an heinous outrage offered to his Sob 
Jesus Christ, to treat wiih so much irreverence, the 
precious death he suffered for our redemption, and the 
adorable b'ood he shed for our salvation ; an outrage 
which is do less than that he received by the cruelty of 
his executioners. i( He was scourged [says St. Augus- 
tin] with the rods of the Jews, and he is now scourged 
by the blasphemous tongues of wicked Christians. And 
they sin no less, who blaspheme Jesus Christ reigning in 
Heaven, than those who blasphemed him when he 
walked upon Earth." 3. This vice causes many other 
sins to be committed, for besides that there is no sin 
multiplies l?ke swearing, when growing habitual, it draws 
the curse of God upon those who are accustomed to it, 
by which they are abandoned to their passions, and to 
the occasions of sio ; for this reason the wfce man said, 
14 A man that sweareth much shall be filled with iniquity 
and a scourge shall not depart from his house." 4*. This 
vice is very hard to be corrected ; though ever so little 
rooted, it increases still with age, and becomes at length 
past remedy, as those who are subject to it, do daily expe- 
rience. Lastly, it suffices to say, that this sin is the sin of 
the devils, who are pleased in nothing but in abusing the 
holy name of God. And it is a horrible thing that Chris- 
tians, who ought to praise God upon Earth as the angels 
praise him ia Heaven, should offer him here the same injuries 
as the devils throw out against him in hell. 

O Theotime, fly this detestable sin, abominable be- 
fore God and man, odious in persons of every age, 
but principally in youth. Remember that the ancient 
law condemned blasphemers to death, and St. Paul 
delivered over to the Devil two Christians guilty ©f 
this crim^: that they may learn, says he, not to blas- 
pheme. And St.' Gregory relates, how a child accus- 
tomed to swear, ia his impatience, by the name of 
God, was seized with a mortal distemper and assault- 
ed by evil spirits, which caused him to depart this 
life in his father's arms, who being too indulgent in cor- 

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reeling him, had bred/ in this child, a great sinner for 
Hell, as the same Saint observes : 

The remedy of this sin, when one has ever so little 
a habit or inclination to it, is to fly the causes, as anger, 
gaming, wicked company, and all other things which every 
one knows to be, of themselves, an occasion of swearing. 
But* above all it is a powerful, and even necessary remedy, 
to impose on one's self some rigorous punishment every 
lime he shall fall into this sin ; as, some aim, some prayers 
to be performed the same day, some fasting to be observed 
soon alter, or other mortifications. 

Avoid every degree of oath or imprecations, and other 
phrases, which though not oaths, tend to swearing upon oc- 
casion 3 * Christian modesty requires that we should not 
swear at all ; according to that holy precept of our Saviour, 
(i I say to jou not to swear at all, but let your speech be 
Yea, yea ; Nay, nay ; for whatsoever is more than these 
coneth of evil." 

Beware also of lying, Theotime, which is not the least' 
considerable among the sins of the tongue ; and it is so much 
more important that you should be solidly instructed on this 
subject, as it is frequent with young persons, and infinitely 
pernicious when once become habitual. A lie is always 
a sin, because it is always against truth, known to be such 
by h''m who speaks ; and although it be not a mortal sin, when 
it is not a matter of consequence, nevertheless, the habit 
of lying, although lightly, is not alight thing, nor of small 
importance. 

A habit or custom of lying opens a gate to an infinite 
number of other vices. A lying person will become a cheat 
and deceiver in his behaviour, double in his words, unfaith- 
ful in his promises, a hypocrite in his manners, a disembler 
in his actions, a flatterer and faint-hearted Vhen he should 
speak truth 5 bold and shameless to affirm lies, impudent to 
maintain them as certain truths, a swearer, detractor, mis- 
trustful of every one ; for as he is accustomed to lie, he 
believes that others always speak false. A mind addicted 
to lyiog, will easily be so in things of moment, and conse- 
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Bo that, Theotime, there are few rices more perni- 
cious, and principally to youth, than this custom of 
lying. For this reason, be not willing to make any 
manner of lie for the% custom thereof is not good ; that 
is, according to the expression of the Scripture, it is very 
bad. 

In a word, it is so wicked a qualify of the mind to be 
a liar, that the Scripture speaks of it in unusual terms. It 
gays that God abhors it : that tying lips are an abomi- 
nation to the Lord ; as, on the comr«ry, those who love 
sincerity in their words, gain his friendship. Thou, O 
Lo*3, wilt destroy all that speak a lie. Lying is infamous 
among men. A lie is a foul blot in a man, and yet it will 
be continually in the mouth of men without discipline. A 
thief is better than a man that is always lying ; but both of 
them shall inherit destruction. 

Lastly, this vice makes men resemble the Devil, who fa 
pleased with nothing more than lies. It was ha who in- 
vented it, and who is the father thereof, as the Son of God 
has named him with his own mouth. 

# 

St. Augustin sajs, " That as the truth comes from 
God, lying takes it origin from the Devil." And St. 
Ambrose adds, " That those who love ljiag, are the chil- 
dren of that detestable fiend, for the children of God love 
truth." 

Fly entirety, Theotime 7 this pernicious vice in all occur* 
renceSj but chiefly in two. 

1. When you speak of a thing of importance, that is 
when it prejudices your neighbour in his goods, honour, or 
eternal welfare, wherein you must be very cautious, and 
even more than in regard of jourself. 

2. When you speak %> a person who has authority, 
over you : for then a lie is a very culpable imposture, as 
well by reason of the respect you then b"eak through, 
as because it frequently happens that those falsehoods 
notably prejudice your own good ; or that of your neigh- 
bour, which you are obliged to promote when it is in your 
power. 

Lastly in whatsoever matter it be, and to whatso- 
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a lie on purpose or with reflection. Love truth and sincerity, 
in all yonr words. What an excellent quality it is in a joung 
jnan # when he cannot tell an uotruth without blushing! The 
just, says the wise man, shall bate a lying word. Beg of God 
that he give you a hatred of this sio, Jmd frequently offer bin* 
that prajer of Solomon, Remove far from me vanity and lying 
words. 

Chapter XXI. 
Of Sports and Recreations. 

Recreation is necessary to relax the spirits, particularly of young 
people; and ibat wbich is taken in innocent diversion is most 
proper for them, it being more proportioned to their nature, and 
the capacity of their mind. 

Pastime, tben, and recreaiion are not contrary to virtue, but 
rather commanded ; and it is an act of virtue when it is done as it 
ought. 

To be such, it is necessary above all things that the mo- 
tive be good ; that is, that it be taken to recreate the mind, 
and to make it more capable of labour, which it could not be 
able to undergo, if it were always employed. So that labour 
is the end and motive of sport and recreation. We recreate 
ours Ives on account of the fatigue we have undergone, «and 
in order to undergo more. From hence three conditions follow, 
which muet be observed in pastime, that it may be good and 
virtuous. 

The first, to observe moderation; for excess herein renders 
it no longer a recreation, but rather an employment ; for it would 
not then be taken to prepare us for new labour, which is the sole 
end pastime ought to have, but merely for our pleasure, which is 
a vicious end; yea, it is to make one unfit for labour, because 
excels in amusement dissipates the spirits, enfeebles the powers of 
the body, and often times considerably prejudices the btaitb, by 
the distempers it causes 

The second condition is, not to have an irregular affection 
for amusement, as it happens frequently to young persons. This 
affection makes them fall into the exce33 just mentioned, lose 
much time, and think continually on the means of dissipation. 
It generally prevents their applying themselves seriously to la- 
bour, and when their body is at study, their mind is bent upon 
their sport and dirertisement. 

The third condition is, to fty as much as possible from 
games of hazard, wbich enslaves the minds principally of youths 
and instead of refreshing the spirit*, load them wrh anxiety; 
one is there so deeply concerned in losing or winning that it 
is hard to observe moderation. They play there only out of 
covetousness and for gain,* which is a criminal motive] con* 



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aider also the ordinary losses one suffers, which leave after them 
displeasure, vexation, and despair ; add to these cheats, unjust 
gain, cbolor, swearing, quarrelp, with which these sorts of games 
are ordinarily attended ; the great loss of time, the dissipation of 
mind and goods, the sinful habits of anger, of impatience, of 
swearing, of lying, of covetousness, a neglect of duty to God and 
their family, and adherence to ill company, an aversion to what 
is serious, and a love to be idle, and to make their life but a 
change or succession of idleness. Such an unhappy inclination 
to play frequently continues all their life, to the rain of their 
Wealth and honour, and reduces them to the utmost misery, as we 
daily see by too many examples, and in short makes a man in- 
capable of all good. 

Avoid all prohibited games, Theotime, as absolutely inconsis- 
tent with your salvation ; amuse yourself in some laudable diver- 
sion, which may serve to unbend the mind, or exercise the body, 
observing therein the conditions we have spoken of, especially 
avoiding aU excess, which St. Atffcustin, in his confessions, ack« 
nowl>-dt>ed to be one of the causes of the wickedness of his youth. 
Now this excess is understood, not only of the time employed 
therein, which'ought always to be very little; otherwise you will 
play for gain, and not for recreation, and the sport will be a rack 
and disquiet rather than a diversion. Besides, the money you 
lose at play would be better employed amongst the poor, whose 
necessity will cry one day to God against your excesses, and those 
of all gamesters. 

Chapter XXII. 

The conclusion of all that has been said in the foregoing 

Chapters* 

It is certainly, Theotime, of great consequence that yon should 
be virtuous in your younger years, and that the good or evil life 
of youth is not trifling, nor a thing that deserves little care or re- 
gard, as the greatest part of the world thinks ; but that it is a bu- 
siness of high importance, the truth of which is founded upon all 
that i3 great and sacred, in what concerns the service of God, and 
salvation of men. 

1. You are obliged fo serve God in your youth, because you 
ought to acknowledge Him as your Creator and sovereign Mas- 
ter, for the being you have received from Him, and on account of 
the most sublime and excellent end for which He has created 
you; haviog made you for nothing less than to possess Him eter- 
nally ia heaven, after you have faithfully served Him upon 
earth. 

2. On account of the great favour he has shown you in 
calling you to Christianity and the Catholic religion, out of 



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which all those who obstinately remain cannot be saved. 

3. Because the service of young people is singularly pleasing 
to God, since He loves them with a particular affection, and iff 
pleased to confer many benefits upon them. 

4. Because you cannot refuse Him your service, without offering 
Him a heinous ho jury. 

5. Because He hath an incredible aversion to wicked young 
people. 

6. Because your eternal salvation has a great dependence 
upon the life you lead in your youth; so that if you let your 
affection upon virtue in your younger year?, you will easily pre* 
serve it the remainder of your life : and if you follow vice, you 
cannot withdraw yourself but with great difficulty, and perhaps 
not at all. 

7. To avoid the heavy misfortunes which spring from the 
wicked life of youth, untimely death, obdurateness in sin, the 
loss of many fair hopes, and the overflowing of vice amongst 
men. 

8. And, lastly, because of the persecution which the devil 
raises against young people, whom ha continually* endeavours to 
withdraw from the services of God, and ensnares betimes in dis- 
orders, that he may destroy them without recovery. 

After all these reasons, I ask you, whether you cow hesi- 
tate what you have to do? Are not these considerations 
powerful enough to convince you of the obligation you have 
to consecrate yourself to virtue in your youth ? And if you 
be convinced thereof, what do you mean? What is your design 
and resolution for the future ? Perhaps hitherto you have 
not comprehended the greatness of obligation ; but now, under- 
standing it clearly, 'what judgment ought you not to expect from 
Gcd, if you be rebellious to the light, and act like those wretches 
who say to God, Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of 
thy ways. 

The Jews being returned from the captivity of Babylon, the 
prophet Esdras caused the law of God to be publicly read unto 
them, from whence ihey had received no instruction during the 
seventy years of their captivity. 

That people had scarce begun to hear the law, when they 
wept bitterly, and made the air resound with their cries and 
lamentations; so that the priests and Levites who read the 
law, were more employed to stop their tears, and comfort, than 
instruct them. This poor people sadly deplored their unhappy 
Ignorance of their dutyj an ignorance which their own negligence 
had occasioned. 

0, dear Theotime, I beseech the Divine Goodness by His grace 
to work the same effect in your heart. After reading the truths. 



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I have represented to you, is it possible that you should not be 
touched with the force of truth and the care of ..your salvation ? 
And that after reading all these seasons which show the strict 
obligation you have to the service of your Creator, you dhould 
shot the book without making any reflections upon yourself, or 
taking proper resolutions for the future ? I conjure you by the 
honour and respect you owe to God, by the love you owe to His 
Son Jesus Christ, your gracious Saviour ; by the concern you 
ought to have for your eternal salvation ; I coojure you, I say, 
that yG# do not read these truths unprofitable ; and that when 
you have read them, you do not cast the Book out of your hands, 
until you have made a fall resolution to think seriously on your 
salvation ; to that effect, firmly resolve to lead a virtuous life 
during your youth, preserving the grace you have received; or 
correcting your past life by a holy and virtuous one, if it haa 
been disorderly. • 

It is here, where you must open your eyes to see yourself, and 
deplore your past offences, and the blindness which has produced 
them, saying with St. Augustin, "Wo, wo be to the daikness 
wherein I have lived ! wo to my blindness, which bath hindered 
me from seeing the light of heaven ! wo to my past ignorance, 
wherein I knew not theal I give thee thanks, God, whom I 
acknowledge to be my illuminator and redeemer, because thou 
hast enlightened me with thy grace, so that now I know thee. I 
have known thee too late. O ancient Truth ! I have known thee 
late. eternal Verity ! n 



PART III. 
THE PRINCIPAL FESTIVALS EXPOUNDED; 

SUNDAY was dedicated by the Apostles to the more par- 
ticular service and honour of Almighty God, and transferred 
from Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, which they then abolished, to 
the day following, in memory that Christ our Lord rose from the 
dead, and sent down the Holy Ghost on that day, whence it is 
called the Lord's day : and, Sunday, from the heathens dedicating 
it to the Sun. 

The four Sundays of Advent, preceding Christmas, were 
instituted by the Church with particular offices, commemorative 
of the benefits of our Saviour's coming to redeem the world by hia 
happy birth. 

The four Ember weeks, in Latin Quatuor tempore era times of 
public prayer, fasting and processioo, partly instituted' for the 
successful ordination of priests and ministers of the church and 



136 THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL BOOK. 

■ 

partly to beg and give thanks to God for the fruits of the earth* 
Ember is derived from the Greek word emera, a day ; others call, 
them Ember days, from the ancient religious custom of eating 
notbiDg on those days till night, ani then only a cake baked under 
the embere, called ember- bread. 

Septuagesima, Sexagesima, and Quinquagesima Sundays, are 
days set apart for acts of penance and mortification, and a certain 
graduation or preparation to the devotion of Lent ; being more 
proper and immediate to the passion and resurrection of Christ; 
taking their numeral denomination from their being about^feeventy 
sixty and fifty days before Easier. 

Shrovetide signifies the time of confession ; for our Saxon 
ancestors used to say, " We will go to shrift ;" and, in the more 
primitive times, it was the custom of all good Christians then to 
confess their sins to a priest, the better to prepare themselves for a 
holy observance of Lent, and worthily receiving the blessed sacra- 
ment at Easter. 

Ash Wednesday is a day of public penance and humiliation in 
the whole Church of God, so called from the ceremony of blessing 
ashes, wherewith the priest signs the people with a cross on their 
forehead, giving them this wholesome admonition, *» Remember, 
man, thou art dust, and unto dust thou shall return,* Gen. iii. 9, 
to remind them of their mortality, and prepare them for the holy 
fast of Lent. The ashes are made of the palms blessed on the 
Palm Sunday of the preceding year. 

Lent, an old Saxon word signifying Spring; this fast being 
observed in the beginning of the year, and in Latin is called 
Quadragesima, because it is a fast of forty days, except Sundays, 
which are only abstinence, instituted by the church. Many are 
the motives for which Lent is established. 1. This fast is the 
figure of the spirit of Penance, which every one of the faithful 
ought to conserve throughout the whole of It's life. 2. It is, *s it 
were a tithe or tenth, which the faithful offer to God, sanctifying 
by fasting these forty days, which make about a tenth part of 
the year. 3. This fast is a weak Imita'ion of what Jesus-Christ 
our Lord performed in the desert, in fasting forty days and forty 
nights, without eating or drinkinsr. 4. It was appointed in con- 
sequence of the obligation which Cbri3t our Lord imposed on his 
disciples to fast after bis ascension. 5. By 'this fast we partici- 
pate in the snfferiugs of our Lord, in order to have a share in his 
glory. And, lastly, it prepares us to celebrate worthily, the ap- 
proaching Easter. 

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drawing nisrb, was ordained by the Church more closely to pre- 
pare us for a worthy celebration of that eo^emnity. On this day 
the crucifixes, &c, in churches, are coTered with a mourning 
colour; both to coraemmorate our Saviour's going out of the 
temple and hiding himself, and to dispose ua to compassionate hia 
Bufferings. 

Palm- Sunday, in memory and honour of our Lord's triumph- 
ant entry into Jerusalem, is so called from the palm branches 
Strewed pnder his feet by the Hebrew children, crying, Hosanna 
to the son of David. Matt. xxi. And therefore the church this 
day blesses palms, and makes a solemn procession, in memory of 
that humble triumph of our Saviour, the people bearing palm 
branches ia their hands. 

Maunduy Thursday, in memory, of our Lord's last supper, when 
he instituted the blessed sacrament of his body and blood, i3 so 
called from the first of the anthem Mandatum, &c, John xviii. 34, 
I gave you a new command, that you love one another as I have 
loved you ; which is sung on that day in the choir, when the pre- 
late begins the ceremony of washing the people's feet in imitation 
of Christ's washing those of his disciples, before He instituted the 
blessed sacrament. 

Good Friday is the anniversary of that most sacred and memor. 
able day on which the great work of our redemption was consum- 
mated by our Saviour Jesus Christ, on his bloody cross, between 
two thieves, on Mount Calvary, near Jerusalem. 

On Thursday, Friday and Saturday, in Holy Week, the offices 
called Tenebre, were formerly mournfully sung ia lamentation 
of our Lord's passion. Hut because the offices are now antici- 
pated on the evening of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, they 
have obtaiaed the names of 'Tenebrse day.*,' for that Tenebra, 
or darkness, which overspread the face of the earth, at the time 
of bis passion; for which end all the lights are extinguished: 
and after some silence at the end of the offices, a noiss is made 
to represent the rending of the veil of the temple, and the disor- 
der in which all nature was involved at the death of our divine 
Redeemer. 

Easter-Day^ in Latin, pascha, a great festival in memory and 
honour of our Saviour's resurrection from the dead, on the third 
day after his crucifixion, Matt, xxviii. 6. It is called Easter from 
Oriens, the east or raising, one of Christ's titles. And his 
name, says the prophet Zacharias, chap. vi. 12, is Oriens. 'This 
is the day our Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it.' 
The church repeating frequently these words on this dav, desires 
that her children, after having shared in the sufferings of 
Christ, by compunction and penance, should participate in the 
glory and joy of his resurrection by a lively faith, hoping to rise 



138 THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL BOOK. 

again themselves, by an ardent love, whh their Redeemer, who 
haying died in satisfaction for our sins, is risen again for our 
justification; and, finally by anew life, pure, and wholly celes- 
tial. The Monday following Is also kept holy, in memory of our 
Lord's first appearance after his resurrection, which is commemor- 
ated on this day, for the greater solemnity of the festival. 

Low-Sunday, in Latin Dominica in albaU, the Octava of Easter 
day, is so called from the catechumen's white garments, emblems 
of innocence and joy, which they put on at their baptism, and 
solemnly put off this day. 

Rogation- Week, the next but one before Whitsunday, is so 
called from i ogo, to ask or pray ; because on , Monday, Tuesday, 
and Wednesday, the Litanies are sung; and abstinence from 
flesh is enjoiued by the church, not only as a devout preparative 
to the feast of Christ's glorious Ascension and Pentecost, but 
also to supplicate the blessing of God on the fruit of the earth. 
The Belgians call it Cruis, or Cross- Week, and so it is called in 
some parts of England; because, when the priest goe3 on those 
days in procession, the cross i3 carried before him. In the north 
of England it is called Gang- Week, from the 'ganging,' or pre- 
cession then used. 

Ascer^sion Day, a . feast solemnized in memory of Christ's 
glorious ascension into heaven, on tho fortieth day after 
his resurrection, in the sight of his apostles and disciples- 
Acts i. 0. 

Whit-Sunday, or Pentecost, a solemn feast in memory and 
honour of the descent of the Holy Ghost on the apostles, in the 
from of tongues of fire, Acts ii. 3. Pentecost, in Greek, signifies 
the fiftieth day after his resurrection. It is called Wnit-Sunday, 
from the catechumens being anciently clothed in white, and ad- 
mitted, on the eve of this feast, to the sacrament of baptism. 
The old Saxons called it Weed, or Holy-Sunday. In the law 
of Moses, this day was most solemn. It is believed, that on it 
God gave the law to Moses upon Mount Sinai. On that day, 
people offered to God the first frnits of the earth. The faithful 
ought -to beg of God to be filled with the Holy- Ghost, and to 
participate of the grace, the light, and charity, and strength, 
which the same Holy-Ghost communicated to the first Christians, 
the following Monday is also a holiday of obligation, and the. 
faithful ought to apply themselves in this week more than ueual 
to the work of mercy. 

Trinity-Sunday, the Octave of Whit-Sunday, is dedicated to the 
honour of the blessed Trinity ; to signify that the work of our re- 
demption and Banctification, then completed are common to tha 
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Corpus Christy the Thursday after Trinity Sunday, is a feast 
instituted by the church in honor of the Blessed sacrament of 
the altar, it receives its denomination from the body of Christ, 
substantially present therein, On this day, in all Catholic coun- 
tries, that adorable sacrament is solemnly carried in procession, 
the priest and people expressing their highest devotion in hymns 
and prayerp, accompanied by several other exterior testimonies of 
pious affection, such as music, flowers strewed along the streets, 
and their walls covered with the richest tapestries. 

JANUARY, 

1st. — The Circumcision of our Lord is celled New Year's Day, ' 
from the Romans beginning their year on if. This feast is insti- 
tuted by the" church in memory of our Lord's Circumcision on the 
eighth day after his nativity, according to th^ precept of the old 
law, G^n. xxii. 12, when he was called JESUS, as the angel has 
foretold, Luke i. 32, and begaa to shed his infant blood by the 
stony knifa of circumcision, 

6th. — The Epiphany of our Lord is a feast solemnised in 
memory and honor of Christ's manifestation to the Gentiles, by 
an extraordinary star, which conducted the three kings from 
the east to adore Him in the manger, where they presented Him 
with gold, myrrh, and .frankincense, in token of his divinity, 
regality, and humanity, or his being God, King and Man, The 
word Epiphany is derived from the Greek, which signifies mani- 
festation. It is also called Twelfth-Day, on account of i ! 3 being 
celebrated the twelfth day after Christ's birth, exclusively. On 
the same day are commemorated our Savioui'a baptism, and his 
first miracle of turning water into wine, at the wedding of Cana, 
in Galilee. 

FEBRUARY. 

2d. —The Purification of the Blessed Virgin, or Candlemas 
Bay j is a feast in commemoration and honour both of the 
Presentation of out Blessed Lord, and the Purification of our 
Lady in the Temple of Jems&lem, the fortieth ..day a f ter her 
happy delivery, performed according to the law of Moses, Lev. 
xii. It is called Purification from the Latin Purifico, which 
signifies to purify ; not that the Blessed Virgin had contracted 
j anything by her child-birth which needed purifying, being the 
Mother of Purity itself, but because common mothers were, by 
j this ceremonial rite, freed from the legal impurity of child-birth, 
'to which out of her great humility, she submitted. It is also 
called Candlemas-Day, because, before Mass on that Day, the 
church blesses her caudles for the whole year, and makes a pro- 
cession with blessed candles in the hands of the faithful in 
memory of the light wherewith Christ illuminated the whole 



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church at his presentation, when old Simeon styled him, a u light 
to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of his people Israel." Luke 
ii. 32. 

24— St. Matthias, chosen by the College cf Apostle?, to sup- 
ply the place of Judas the traitor ; he suffered Marty drom, anno, 
74. 

MARCH. 

1 7. — St. Patrick, apostle of Ireland. He was a Briton by 
birtb, and nephew to St. Martin, Bishop of Tours Being sent, 
in 443, by Pooe Celestinup, to convert the Irish to Christianity, 
he entered upon his ministry with such piety and courage, that 
he subdued the iubabitants to the laws if the goppel of Christ ; 
and after having governed the church of Iivland sixty years, dur- 
ing which he is said to have consecrated 305 Bithops, snd ordain- 
ed 3,000 Piiests, he died in the odour of sanctity, at the age of 
12 * years. 

J9 — Si. Joseph, the reputed father of our blessed Saviour, and 
fp>nse of our blessed Lady. 

25. — Annunciation of our Lady, a feast in memory of the Angel 
Gabriel's most happy embassy , when, by ber consent and the co- 
operation of the Holy Ghost, the Sou of God was incarnate in her 
sacred womb. 

APRIL. 

25.— St. Mark, evangelist, the disciple and interpreter of St. 
Peter, writing bis gospel at tbe request of the Christians at 
Rome, he took it with him into Esrypt ; first preaching at Alexan- 
dria, be founded that Church; and afierwardp, being apprehended 
for the tiith ci Christ, was bound with cords, dragged upon 
Stones, and shut up in a close prison, wber- he was comforted 
by an angelic vision, and apparition of our Lord, Finally, 
he was called to heaven in the eighth year of Nero. On ihi9 
day the long litanieB are said or eung, and abstnence from fl sh 
is observed, to obtain the blessing of God, on the fruits of the 
earth. 

MAT. 

1st. — S3. Philip and James, Apostle?. After the first had con- 
verted almost all Scythia to tbe faith of Christ, being fastened to 
a cross, he was stoned to death, making a glorious end at Hiero- 
polis, in Asia, in the year fifty-'our. The second, called also our 
Lord's brother, was the first bishop of Jerusalem, where, bting 
thrown from a pinnacle of tbe temple, his tbighs broken, and 
Struck on tbe head with a fuller's club, be gave up the ghost, and 
Was buried near the temple, in the year eixtj -three. 

3. — Finding the Holy Cross, otherwise called, Holy Blood Bay, 
A feast in memory of the miraculous discovery of the holy croaa 
Whereon our Saviour suffered, by St. Helen, mother of Constan- 
tino the Great, in the jear three hundred and twenty-six, after 



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it had been concealed by the Infidels one hundred and eight year* , 
who erected a statute of Venus ia place of it. 

JUNE, 

II. — St. Barnaby ; born at Cjprus, and ordained apostle of the 
Gentiles by St. Paul. He travelled with him into many pro- 
vinces exercising the function of preacbicg the gospel committed 
to him ; and lastly, going into Cypru?, there adorned his apostle- 
ship with a glorious crown of martyrdom in the year fifty-six. 
His body, by a revelation of himself, was found in the times 
of Zeno the emperor, with St. Matbew's gospel in his own hand- 
writing. 

24.— Nativity of St. John Baptist, our Lord's precursor, tb8 aon 
of Zachary and Elizabeth, who being yet in the mother's womb, 
was replenished with the Holy-Ghost. 

29. — St. Peter and St. Paul are joined ia©ne*solemnity, because 
they were the principal co-operators under Christ, in the conver- 
sion of the world ; the first having converted the Jews, the other 
the Gentiles. They were both martyred at the same place, Rome, 
on the same day. 

JULY, 

2. — Visitation of our B. Lady , a feast instituted to commemor- 
ate the visit she paid her cousin, St. Elizabeth, immediately after 
she had received the angel's message of the incarnation of the Son 
of God. It is celebrated at this time, when it is probable she 
returned to Nasaretb, rather than at the exact time she undertook 
it, about Easter; because its observance at that holy season can 
scarcely be complied with, on account of the many great solem- 
nities then occurring. This feast was instituted by Pope Urbain 
VI, in the year thirteen hundred and eighty-five. 

25.— St. James, called the Great, brother to St. John the 
evangelist, was, about the feast of Easter, beheaded at Jerusa- 
lem by Herod Agrippa, in the year forty-two. His relics were on 
this day translated to Compostella, in Spain where they are held 
in great veueration, people resorting thither from all parts 
of Christendom, to pay their pious devotions and fulfil their vow* 

26.— -St. Ann, mother of the B. Virgin Mary. 

AUGUST 

6th. — Our Lord* s Transfiguration, when he appeared in glory on 
Mount Tabor, between Moses and E lias, in presence of his three 
apostles, Peter, James, and John. Matt.xvii. 

10.— -St. Lawrence, deacon to Pope Xystus II. was broiled on a 
gridiron for the faith ot Christ ; which cruel martyrdom he suffer- 
ed with incomparable fortitude and patience, in the year two hun- 
dred and fifty three. 



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15th>— Assumption of the B. V. Mary, a feast in memory of her 
being taken into heaven, both body and bo ul, after her dissolution, 
which by a constant tradition in the church, has ever been piou3ly 
believed to have happened in the year thirty-six. 

24.— St. Bartholomew, the apostle having preached the gospel 
in India, and passing thenca into the greater Armenia after he 
had converted innumerable paople to the faith, was barbarously 
flayed alive by command of King Astages, and then beheaded, in 
the year forty-four. 

SEPTEMBER. 

8th.— The Feast of her Nativity, of whom the Author of all 
life and salvation was born to the world. 

11th. — The Exaltation of the Holy Cross; when Heraclitus 
brought it back iu triumph to Jerusalem, in the year six hundred 
and twenty -eight. 

3 1st.— St. Mathew, apostle and evangelist, after preaching the 
gospel in Ethiopia, was slain at the al tar as he celebrated the 
divine mysteries, in the year forty-tour. 

29tb.— Michaelmas, a festival instituted in honor of St. Michael 
the archangel and of the nine oiders of holy angels ; to commend 
the whole Cburch of God to their patronage, by whose charitable 
ministry we daily receive from God, as the original source, such 
innumtrable b. nefits. It is called the dedication of St. Michael 
from the dedicating of a Church to him in Rome by Pope Boniface, 
III, in the year six hundred and eight. 

OCTOBER. 

lgth.— St. Luke, the evangelist, who filled with the Holy Ghost 
after he had endured many afflictions for the name of Christ, died 
in Bytbnia, in the year seventy-four. H ; s sacred bones were 
brought to Constantinople, and thence translated to Padua. 

28'h.— S3. Simon, tie Cananite, and Jnde, otherwise called 
Thaddeus. The 6rst preached the gospel in Egypt, the latter in 
Mesopotamia, and afterwards going togeiher into Persia, after 
having converted au infinite number of that nation to the faith, 
they accomplished their m&rtyrdoai in the year sixty eight. 

NOVEMBER. 

1st.— All Saints, a solemnity in memory of all the saints ; since 
the whole vear is too short to affjid a Eepara ast fcr each of 
them. t 

2ad,«~ All Souls, a day appointed by the Chureb for the living 
to offer up their prayers and suffrages for the repose of the faithful- 
departed. 

30th.— St. Andrew, apostte, having preached the gospel ia 



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Thrace and Scythia, he was apprehended by Egeas the procon- 
sul ; he was first imprisoned,then mo3t cruelly beaten, and lastly 
fastened to a cross, where he lived two days, preachiug to the 
people ; and having besought our Lord not to permit him to be 
taken down, encompassed with a great light from Heaven, he 
gave up his blessed sou', at Patras in Achaia, in the year sixty- 
nine. 

DECEMBER. 

8th. — Conception of the glorious and ever B. V. Maty, Mother 
of God ; a feast insiituted by St. Anselm, Archbishop of Canter- 
bury, in the year one thousand and seventy, and commanded af- 
terwards by Sextus IV. to be generally observed, in the year 
fourteen hundred and forty-six. 

21st. — St. Thomas, apostle ; hav ? ng preached the gospel to the 
Parthians, Medes, Persians, and Hjreaos, he went iato India, 
where be instructed the people in the Christian faith : for which, 
by the King's command, he was pierced through the body with 
lance3, and gave up his blessed saul at Calamiua, in the year 
forty -four. 

25th. — Christ's Nativity, a solemn festival celebrated annually 
by the Catholic Church from the time of the apostlep, in com- 
memoration of our Savioui'3 birtb at Bethlehem, called Christmas 
from the mass then celebrated in honor of his holy birth. The 
nativity of our Lord is a great subject of joy^to Christians : all 
ought to participate in the joy which the angels declared to the 
shepherds. Christ being born for the salvation of a.1): This joy 
consists in giving glory to God and in relishing the peace given 
to men of good will. The faithful ought to give pre-*t attention 
to this adorable mystery. They ought not to fail to receive 
the most holy sacrament ; they ought to go to church, as 
the shepherds went to Bethlehem, full of faitb, admiration and 
.gladness ; beholding the Son of God made man; they ought to 
adore him, to give him thanks, to learn from the child Jesus 
humility, simplicity, a contempt of riches, flying from honors, 
a retirement from the world, e elf denial, the love of sufferings, 
mortification, penance; tbey ought to refract on the excess of 
charity, wherewith the Eternal Father hath loved u?, having given 
to us his cn ] y Son, to deliver us from sin; and, by such a 
reflexion, to excite themselves to love God with their whole heart 
and most earnestly to hate sin. 

26. — St. Stephen, the first martyr after Christ's ascension, was 
Stoned to death by the Jews, in the year thirty -four. 

17.— St. John, apostle and evangelist ; after writing his go?r>?J, 
hi3 banishment, and receiving his Revelations, lived to the time 
of Trajan the emperor, and both founded and governed the 



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Churches of Asia. Finally, worn out with old age, he died at 
Ephesus, aged ninety-three, in the year sixty-eight, and was hur- 
ried near the same city. 

28th. — Holy Innocent?, a feast in commemoration of the iofints 
barbarously slaughtered by Herod, when he sought to take away 
the life of our blessed Saviour. It is also called Cbilder-Mass 
Day, from the particular commemoration of those martyred chil- 
dren in the Mass of that day. 

19th. — St. Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury, and patron of 
the EngHsh clergy, for maintaining the privileges of the Cburch 
of God, was martvred at Vespers in his own cathedral, in the 
year one thousand one hundred and seventy. 

The several festivals of the saints are instituted by the Church 
to honor God in his saints, to teach us to imitate their virtues, 
and honor their martyrdom and sufferings for the faith of Christ. 

NECESSARY RULES FOR A CHRISTIAN. 

Often examine your thoughts, words, and action?, especially 
after much business, conversation, etc , that you may discern and 
amend your faults. 

Hold your peace in such things as relate not to you, and where 
your speech is not for the honor of God, and good of your neigh- 
bour. 

Often call to mind your past life, and what our Saviour suffered 
for you in every moment of his. 

Live aS if you had nothing, and yet possessed all things; and 
remember that meat, drink, and clothes, are not the riches of a 
Christian. 

Offer yourself entirely to God ; and though yon have nothing 
to return for his favours but yourself, you will be comforted when 
you consider, that He gives all that gives himself. Toe apostles 
quitted their poor bo its and nets, and received f»r them a most 
ample reward. The poor widow gave only two mites, and hsr 
offering was preferred before those of the richest. 

He easily parts with all things, who considers that he must die 
end be separated from them. 

Use no extravagant or nnusual gestures in open assemblies 
but on all occasions observe a becoming modesty and discretion. 

In all occurrences of life, prefer that which conduce the most 
to th9 service of God : as to comfort the afflicted, reconcile such 
as are at variance, visit the sick and imprisoned, and relieve the 
$>oor. 

Never go to rest at night with any disquiet or trouble on your 
mind, but endeavour to pacify your conscience by an act of con- 
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Often confess your sins, and make frequent acts of contritioo, 
aspiration, or ejaculatory prayers, so that you may prevent the 
deceits of the Devil, conquer temptation, avoid sin, and live under 
the continual protection of God. 



PRAYERS TO BE USED ON DIFFERENT OCCASIONS. 

A PRAYER WHEN WE ENTER INTO THE CHURCH. 

How awful is this place ! this is the house of God, and the gate 
of Heaven ; vouchsafe. to purify me, Lord, and grant that I may 
here think of nothing but of Thee. 

A PRATER AT GOING OUT OF THE CHURCH. 

Happy are they, Lord, who always dwell in thy house, and 
who are employed in nothing but in praising thee. I am going 
where I believe thy providence carries me ; in every place I shall 
always find Thee present 

A PRAYER BEFORE SPIRITUAL READING. 

Happy is the man who is well instructed in thy holy law, my 
God. Give me the spirit of understanding, the docility that is 
necessary, and an ardent charity for putting in execution what 
thou shalt make me know to be acceptable to thee. 

A PRAYER AFTER SPIRITUAL READING. 

Make me love the truth which thou hast made known to me, 
my God, and grant me the grace to practice what I know to be 
according to thy holy will. 

A PRATER BEFORE VISITS AND CONVERSATIONS. 

Seeing that my tongue is to celebrate Thy praises for all eter- 
nity, my God, permit me not to offend Thee in this visit and 
conversation. 

A PRAYER AFTER VI3ITINGS AND CONVERSATIONS. 

Vouchsafe to pardon, O Lord, aH the faults committed in this 
entertainment, and permit not my words ever to be a scandal or 
offence to any one. 

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A PRAYER BEFORE GOING OUT OF THE HOUSE. 

Vouchsafe, Lord, to direct me in thy way of Justice and 
truth, and remove far from me all occasions of sin. 

A PRAYER AFTER RETURNING HOME. 

I give Thee infinite thanks, my God, for having preserved 
me from se msuy dangers; and I besf cf thy infinite mercy to 
bring me at last to Thy heavenly country. 

A P *YER WHEN WE BEGIN ANY WORK. 

I offer unto Thee, Lord, this toy work, and beg of Thee 
to be the director of it, as I hope Thou will be the reward 
thereof. 

A PRAYER AT THE END OF WORK. 

I give Thee thanks, Lord, for the blessing given to my work, 
and X bsgof Theo to accept of it in satisfaction for my sins. 

GRACE BEFORE EATING 

Bless to us, Lord, all these thy gifts, which we are about to 
receive of thy bounty : through Jesus Chri3t our Lord. Amen, 

GRACE AFTER EATING. 

We give thanks, Almighty God, for all thy benefits; who 
livest and reighest world without end. Amen. 

ANOTHER PRAYER. 

Vouchsafe, Lord, to nourish my soul, as Thou hast fed my 
body ; and grant that after temporal nourishment I may have 
eternal life. Amen. 



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THE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE. 



THE LORD'S PRAYER, 



Our Father, who art in Heaven," hallowed be Thj name \ Thy 
kingdom come ; Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven"; 
give us this day our daily bread ; and forgive us our trespasses, 
as we forgive them that trespass against us , and Uud m not into 
temptation ; but deliver us from evil. Amen, 

THE ANGELIC SALUTATiON. 

Hail Mary, full of grace, our Lord is with thee. Blessed art 
tbon amongst women"! and bles3ed is the fruit of thy womb, 
JESUS. Holy Mary, Mother of GoJ, pray foi us sinners, now, 
and at the hour of our death. Amen. 

THE APOSTLES' CREED. 

I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and 
Earth ; and in Je^us Christ, his only son, our Lord, who was 
conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary ; suffered 
under Pontias Pirate, was crucified, dead and buried ; he de- 
ascended into Hell; the third day he rose again from the dead ; 
he ascended into Heaven ; sitteth at the right hand of Go^, the 
Father Almighty ; from thence he shall come to judge the living 
and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost, the holy Catholic 
Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of s ns. the 
resurrection of the body, and life 6veilasting. Amen. 

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 

I am the Lord tby Lord, who brought Ihea out of the land of 
Egypt, and out of the house of bondage. 

1. Thou shalt not have strange gods before me. Thou sbalt 
not make to thyself any graven tbinqr, nor any similitude that 
is in Heaven above, or in the Earth below, or of things that are 
in the water under the Eirth ; thou shalt-not adore nor worship 
them. I am the Lord thy God, strong and jealous, visiting the 
sins of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth 
generation of them that bate me, and showing mercy to thousands 
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II. Thou e- alt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain ; 
for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that takea the name of 
the Lord fcia God in vain. 

III. P??cember thou keep holy the Sabbath day. Six days 
shalt thou labour and do all thy work ; but the seventh is the 
Sabbath of the Lord thy God. On it thou shalt do no work, 
neither thoa, nor thy sod, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, 
nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor the stranger which is 
within \l v gate*. For in six days the Lord made Heaven and 
Earth, uui me sea, and all that are ia them, and rested on the 
seventh day ; therefore hath the Lord blessed the Sabbath-day, 
and sanctified it. 

IV. Honour thy father and mother, that thy days may be long 
ia the land which the Lord thy God shall give thee. 

XT . Tho i h^t not kill. 

VL T vju shalt not commit adultery. 

VII. Thou shalt not steal. 

VIII. Thou shale not bear false witne33 against thy neighbour. 

IX. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife. 

X. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's goods, nor his man- 
servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any- 
thing that is his. 

THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS. 

I. Baptism, Matt, xxviii. 19. 2. Confirmation. Acts vii. 17. 
3 Eucharist, Matt. xxvi. 26. 4. Penance, John xx. 23. 5. Ex- 
treme Unction, James v. 14, 6. Holy Orders, Matt. xxvi. 7. 
Matrimony, Matt. xix. 6. 

THE THREE THEOLOGICAL VIRTUES. 

1. Faith. 2. Hope. 3. Charity. 

THE FOUR CARDINAL VIRTUES. 

1 Prudence. 2. Justice. 3. Fortitude. 4. Temperance. 

THE SEVEN GIFTS OF THE HOLY GHOST. 

1. Wisdom. 2. Understanding. 3. Counsel. 4. Fortitude 
5. Knowledge. 6. Godliness. 7. The fear of the Lord. 

THE TWELVE FRUITS OF ^HE HOLT GHOST. 

1. Charity, 2. Joy. 3. Peace. 4. Patfence. 5, Benignity. 



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6. Goodnes3. 7. Longanimity 8. Mildness. 9. Faith. 10 
Modesty. 11. Continence. 12. Charity. 

TWO PRECEPTS OF CHARITY. 

1. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart 
with thy whole soul, with all thy strength, and with all thy mind, 
2. And thy neighbour as thyself. 

PRECEPTS OF THE' CHURCH. 

1. To keep certain appointed days holy, wLicn o l>liga : -v con- 
sists chiefly in hearing Mass, and resting from servile works. 

2. To observe the commanded days of fast and abstinence. 

3. To contribute to the support of your pastor. 

4. To confess your sins to your pastor, at least once a year. 

5. To receive the blesssd sacrament at least once a year j and 
that about Easter. 

5. Not to solemnize marriage at certain times, nor within cer- 
tain degrees of kindred, nor privately, without witnesses. 

THE CORPOREAL WORKS OF MERCY. 

1. To feed the hungry. 2. To give drink to the thirsty. 3 
To clothe the naked. 4. To visit and ransom captives. 5. To 
harbour the harbourless. 6. To visit the sick. 7. To bury the 
dead. 

THE EIGHT BEATITUDES. 

1. Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of 
Heaven. 

2. Blessed are they that mourn; for they shall be comforted. 

3. Blessed are the meek, for they shall possess the land. 

4. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after justice, for they 
shall be filled. 

5. Blessed are the^merciful, for they shall find mercy. 

6. Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God. 



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-1. Blessed are the peace-makers, for they shall be called the 
sons of GodL 

1 Blessed are they who suffer persecution for justice's sake, for 
theirs is the kingdom of Heaven. 



OF SIN. 

Sin is tv*o-io:<i ; original and actual. Actual is divided into 
mortal and venial. 

THB CAPITAL ESV3N 3INS, COMMONLY CALLED MORTAL OR DEADLY 

BUSS. 

Pride, Humility, 

Covetousness. Liberality, 

Lust, g> ^ Chastity 

Wrath, g s Meekness, 

Gluttony ^ |£ Temperance, 

Envy, 5 ^ Brotherly-love, 
Sloth, Diligence. 

Six Sins against the Ifoly Ghost, 

1. Despair of salvation. 2, Presumption of God's mercy. 3. 
Impugning tha known truth. 4. Envy at another's spiritual good. 
6. Obstinacy in sin. 6. Final importance. 

Things necessary for a Penitent Sinner. 

Contrition of heart. Entire confession to an approved priest. 
Satisfaction by works. 

Contrition consists in a hearty displeasure at sin past, for the 
love of God, and a firm resolution not to sin any more. 

Four Sins crying to Heaven for Vengeance. 

1. Wilful murder. 2. Sodomy. 3. Oppression of the poor. 
4. Defrauding labourers of their wages. 

Nine ways of being accessory to another person's sins. 

1. By counsel. 2. By command. 3. By consent. 4. By pro- 
vocation. 5. By praise or flattery. 6. By concealment. 7, By 
paxtaking. 8. By silence. 9. By defence of the ill done, 



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Three Eminent Good Works. 

i. Alms-deeds, or works of mercy. 2. Prayer. 3. Fasting, 

Three Evangelical Counsels. 

1. Voluntary poverty, 2, Perpetual charity, 3. Bnth 1 * obe- 
dience. 

The Four Last Things to he Renumbered, 
1. Death, 2. Judgment. 3. Hell. 4. Heaven. 



APPROBATION. 

We have seen and approved the book called The Catholic 
School Eook, and we recommend the use of it in our Diocese. 

f Ig. Bishop of Montreal. 
Montreal the 1st of July, 1843. 

Baltimore, 8th July, 1824. 
The Catholic School Book is in my judgment, an elementary 
work of singular merit. I will rejoice to see it introduced into 
all the Catholic Schools in chis country. 

Amb. Archbp. Bait. 

New- York, 1st Sept., 1824. 
I have read the Catholic School Book, and believe it to be 
well adapted to the understanding of youth, and calculated to 
give them early ideas of morality and virtue. I therefore recom- 
mend its adoption to our Schools, to the Clergy and Laity of this 
Diocese. 

John Connolly, 
R. C. Bishop of New-York. 

Sir, — Having looked over your Catholic School Book, I think 
it right to tell you, that in myopinoin it is far the most complete 
work of its kind in our language, and eminently entitled to the 
patronage of the Catholic public. What I particularly admire in 
it is, that, instead of those trifling, and in some instances, irreli- 
gious stories to be found in books of the same nature, it contains 
a series of Moral Lessons and Scripture History, proper for the 
instruction, and adapted to the understanding and abilities of 
children, who are learning to read. As such, I shall not fail to 
recommend it in those places of education over which I have any 
authority or influence. 

I am, Sir, 

Your faithful servant, 

J. Milner, D.D. 
Mr. W, E. Andrews. 



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